Public Philosophy in a New Key: Volume 2, Imperialism and Civic Freedom »

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.

Two ambitious volumes from one of the world's leading political philosophers presenting a new kind of political and legal theory.

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.