Freedom and Democracy in an Imperial Context

Freedom and Democracy in an Imperial Context: Dialogues with James Tully gathers leading thinkers from across the humanities and social sciences in a celebration of and critical engagement with the recent work of Canadian political philosopher James Tully. Over the past thirty years James Tully has made key contributions to some of the most pressing questions of our time including: interventions in the history of moral and political thought contemporary political philosophy democracy citizenship imperialism recognition and cultural diversity. In 2008 he published Public Philosophy in a New Key a two-volume work that promises to be one of the most influential and important statements of legal and political thought in recent history. This work along with numerous other books and articles is foundational to a distinctive school of political thought influencing thinkers in fields as diverse as Anthropology History Indigenous Studies Law Philosophy and Political Science. Critically engaging with James Tullyâs thought the essays in this volume take up what is his central and ever more pressing question: how to enact democratic practices of freedom within and against historically sedimented and actually existing relationships of imperialism? . Language: English