Title Public philosophy in a new key. Volume II, Imperialism and civic freedom / James Tully

Published Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 355 pages) Series Ideas in context ; 94 Ideas in context ; 94 Contents Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Credits; Volume I; Volume II; Introduction; Public philosophy and civic freedom: a guide to the two volumes; PART 1 Global governance and practices of freedom; Chapter 1 The Kantian idea of Europe: critical and cosmopolitan perspectives; Introduction; 1 The Kantian idea of Europe and the world; 2 A critical Enlightenment attitude towards the Kantian idea of Europe; 3 Rethinking cultures; 4 Rethinking constitutions and federations; 5 From monologue to cosmopolitan multilogue; Conclusion Chapter 2 Democracy and globalisation: a defeasible sketchIntroduction: a political philosophy of the present; 1 Two types of practices of government and democracy: restrictive and extensive; 2 Practices of representative government and democracy; 3 Contemporary political globalisation and global governance; 4 Unmodified and modified representative practices of government and democracy; 5 Unmodified and modified extensive practices of government and democracy; Conclusion; Chapter 3 An ecological ethics for the present; 1 Three approaches to the central question; 2 Practical systems 3 Negotiations over the central question4 Implementation and review; Conclusion; Chapter 4 The unfreedom of the moderns in comparison to their ideals of constitutional democracy; Introduction; 1 Two principles and six features of constitutional democracy; 2 Three illegitimate trends in comparison to the principle of democracy; 3 Critical discussion of the two principles in the light of the three trends; 4 The third response: a critical and practical approach; Conclusion; PART 2 On imperialism; Chapter 5 On law, democracy and imperialism Introduction: the field of political theory and public law1 The first or traditional critics: overlooking the continuity of informal imperialism; 2 The second critics: overlooking the historical length and breadth of informal imperialism; 3 The third critics: overlooking the imperial features of the state system, development and institutions of global governance; 4 Kantian imperialism; 5 Neo-Kantian imperialism; 6 The fourth critics: self-determination, democratisation and imperialism; 7 The fifth critics: post-colonialism, legal constructivism and interactive imperialism; Conclusion Chapter 6 Communication and imperialismPreamble: pierre trudeau's ethos of civic participation; Introduction: the turn to communicative action; 1 Networks of communication and social ordering; 2 Controlling communication; 3 Democratic communicative action; Chapter 7 The imperial roles of modern constitutional democracy; Introduction; 1 Western constitutional democracy: the modern arrangement of constituent powers and constitutional forms; 2 The imperial roles of constitutional democracy; 3 Beyond imperialism: democratic constitutionalism; Conclusion: Civic freedom contra imperialism Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Citizenship -- Philosophy Political culture -- Philosophy Imperialism -- Philosophy Civil rights -- Philosophy POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights. Imperialism -- Philosophy Citizenship -- Philosophy Civil rights -- Philosophy Political culture -- Philosophy Form Electronic book ISBN 0511464258 9780511464256 9780511464997 0511464991 9780511790744 0511790740 9780511462672 0511462670

Other Titles Imperialism and civic freedom

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