Liberty after Liberalism Civic Republicanism in a Global Age

by Quill, Lawrence

• ISBN13: 9781403942494
• ISBN10: 1403942498
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-11-29
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Liberty after Liberalism frees the concept of the active citizen from both the territorial confines of the nation-state and the limits imposed by republican, city-state models. Lawrence Quill advances a theory of global republicanism, one that is able to respond directly to the changing realities of political life. By adopting a "publicly ironic" approach to politics, Quill revives the idea of public freedom within a global context thereby providing an important supplement to contemporary theories of cosmopolitan democracy.

Author Biography

Lawrence Quill is Associate Director, Stanford Centre on Ethics and Lecturer, Stanford University.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Introduction: From Polis to Cosmopolis	1	(16)
Introduction: Republican liberty and political space	1	(3)
Republicanism in context	4	(4)
Republicanism: Relevant debates	8	(5)
A dead hypothesis?	13	(1)
Overview of the argument	14	(3)
The Transformation of Political Space	17	(24)
Political space in the early republic	18	(8)
The problem of size	26	(7)
The irrelevance of republican citizenship?	33	(5)
Conclusion	38	(3)
The State We Are (No Longer) In	41	(25)
The liberal political space	43	(2)
Protective, developmental and bureaucratic spaces	45	(8)
The virtues of being a liberal citizen	53	(10)
After the liberal state?	63	(2)
Conclusion	65	(1)
Republicanism Revisited	66	(23)
Bringing the state back in	67	(5)
The polis within the state	72	(7)
Re-imagining political community	79	(3)
Citizen-nomads and citizen-ships	82	(4)
Conclusion	86	(3)
On the Ancient and Modern Origins of Cosmopolitanism	89	(25)
Cosmo-political space	93	(5)
The cosmopolitan citizen	98	(6)
A new politics of cosmopolitanism?	104	(6)
Conclusion	110	(4)
The Case for Political Education	114	(20)
Liberalism: Educating for minimal autonomy	116	(5)
Republicanism: Educating for citizenship	121	(5)
Cosmopolitanism: Educating for world citizenship	126	(6)
Conclusion	132	(2)
The World Turned Upside Down	134	(18)
The anti-political space of empire	135	(5)
A different citizen?	140	(2)
Public irony and political hope	142	(7)
Conclusion	149	(3)
Conclusion: After Liberalism?	152	(3)
Notes	155	(7)
Bibliography	162	(14)
Index	176