'Tully regards his political philosophy as a public philosophy, engaged in a constant dialogue with political agents. Where and how this dialogue takes place and which political effects it will have are questions beyond its control. The gap between theory and practice thus turns out to be a limit even for a theory that, as far as possible, conceives of itself as practice. Tully's work is exemplary in pushing this limit in ways from which both theory and practice can learn a great deal.' Constellations

These two ambitious volumes from one of the world's most celebrated political philosophers present a new kind of political and legal theory that James Tully calls a public philosophy, and a complementary new way of thinking about active citizenship, called civic freedom. Professor Tully takes the reader step-by-step through the principal debates in political theory and the major types of political struggle today. These volumes represent a genuine landmark in political theory. In this second volume, Professor Tully studies networks and civic struggles over global or imperial relations of inequality, dependency, exploitation and environmental degradation beyond the state. The final chapter brings all of the author's resonant themes together in a new way of thinking about global and local citizenship, and of political theory in relation to it. This forms a powerful conclusion to a major intervention from a vital and distinctive voice in contemporary thought.
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Dedication; Acknowledgements; Credits; Introduction; Public philosophy and civic freedom: a guide to the two volumes; Part I. Global Governance and Practices of Freedom: 1. The Kantian idea of Europe: cosmopolitan and critical perspectives; 2. Democracy and globalisation: a defeasible sketch; 3. An ecological ethics; 4. The unfreedom of the moderns in relation to their ideals of constitutionalism and democracy; Part II. On Imperialism; 5. On law, democracy and imperialism; 6. Communication and imperialism; 7. The imperial toles of modern vonstitutional democracy; Conclusion: civic freedom contra imperialism: 8. A new kind of Europe? Democratic integration in the European Union; 9. On global and local citizenship; Bibliography; Index.
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Two ambitious volumes from one of the world's leading political philosophers presenting a new kind of political and legal theory.

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ISBN
9780521728805
Publisert
2008-12-18
Utgiver
Vendor
Cambridge University Press
Vekt
600 gr
Høyde
228 mm
Bredde
151 mm
Dybde
18 mm
Aldersnivå
UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
384

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James Tully is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of Victoria, Canada. He is one of the most distinguished political philosophers in the world.