Strange Multiplicity
Strange Multiplicity
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GBPIn the inaugural set of Seeley Lectures, the distinguished political philosopher James Tully addresses the demands for cultural recognition that constitute the major conflicts of today: supranational associations, nationalism and federalism, linguistic and ethnic minorities, feminism, multiculturalism and aboriginal self government. Neither modern nor post-modern constitutionalism can adjudicate such claims justly. However, by surveying 400 years of constitutional practice, with special attention to the American aboriginal peoples, Tully develops a new philosophy of constitutionalism based on dialogues of conciliation which, he argues, have the capacity to mediate contemporary conflicts and bring peace to the twenty-first century. Strange Multiplicity brings profound historical, critical and philosophical perspectives to our most pressing contemporary conflicts, and provides an authoritative guide to constitutional possibilities in a multicultural age.
- Ambitious proposal from a major political thinker for a new kind of constitutionalism
- Combines historical and contemporary analysis
- Unique in that centred around the interpretation of a work of art
Product details
September 1995Paperback
9780521476942
272 pages
214 × 139 × 17 mm
0.37kg
1 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents
- Part I. Demands for Constitutional Recognition:
- 1. The constitutional question raised by the politics of cultural recognition: six examples and three similarities
- 2. The mutual recognition of cultural diversity: three features of the common ground and three historical movements
- 3. The spirit of Haida Gwaii as a symbol of the age of cultural diversity
- 4. A constitutional dialogue in The spirit of Haida Gwaii
- Part II. Diversity and Contemporary Constitutionalism:
- 5. Anwering the constitutional question: an outline
- 6. Two languages of contemporary constitutionalism and the three schools of modern constitutionalism
- 7. The challenge of post-modernism and cultural feminism
- 8. The challenge of interculturalism
- Part III. The Historical Formation of Modern Constitutionalism: The Empire of Uniformity:
- 9. Constitutions ancient and modern
- 10. Seven features of modern constitutionalism
- 11. Example of forging the seven features: Locke and Aboriginal peoples
- 12. Vattel, Kant and their followers
- 13.The reform of diversity in Europe and the colonies
- 14. The American revolution and the guardians of empire today
- Part IV. The Historical Formation of Common Constitutionalism: The Rediscovery of Cultural Diversity, Part I:
- 15. The hidden constitutions of contemporary societies
- 16. Understanding constitutionalism: Wittgenstein and Hale
- 17. Examples of the three conventions: the Aboriginal and common-law system and the conventions of mutual recognition and consent
- 18. The Aboriginal and common law system and the convention of continuity
- 19.The Aboriginal and common law system and constitutional dialogue
- Part V. The Historical Formation of Common Constitutionalism: The Rediscovery of Cultural Diversity. Part II:
- 20. Diverse federalism and the conventions of mutual recognition, continuity and consent
- 21. Diverse federalism and continuity: the Québec act and the ancient constitution
- 22. Diverse federalism, the three conventions and the American revolution
- 23. The modern attack on diverse federalism: the Durham report and its followers
- 24. Linguistic minorities and the three conventions: the form of reasoning appropriate to mutual recognition and accommodation
- 25. Intercultural citizens, gender differences and the three conventions
- Part VI. Constitutionalism in an Age of Cultural Diversity:
- 25. A summary of contemporary constitutionalism
- 26. Replies to four objections to contemporary constitutionalism
- 27. Two public goods of contemporary constitutionalism: belonging and critical freedom
- Conclusion: the philosophy and practice of contemporary constitutionalism
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
