James Tully (philosopher)
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James Hamilton Tully, FRSC (born 1946) is a teacher and Canadian
philosopher of civic freedom and political struggles.
, and has written on constitutionalism, diversity, indigenous politics, recognition theory, multiculturalism, and the problem of imperialism. He is a member of the Trudeau Foundation and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
. He was special advisor to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples
(1991-1995). In 2010, he was awarded the prestigious Killam prize in recognition of his distinguished career and exceptional contributions to Canadian scholarship and public life.
Tully has held positions at McGill University
, the University of Toronto
, Cambridge University, Oxford University, and University of Victoria
.
After completing his BA at the University of British Columbia
and PhD at Cambridge University, he taught in the departments of Philosophy and Political Science at McGill University
1977-1996. He was Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Victoria 1996-2001. In 2001-2003 he was the inaugural Henry N.R. Jackman Distinguished Professor in Philosophical Studies at the University of Toronto in the departments of Philosophy and Political Science and the Faculty of Law. He returned to the University of Victoria in 2003, where he is now the Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Law, Indigenous Governance and Philosophy.
What are the ways of thinking that actually bring peace to the conflicts ?
Democratic ethos, self-marginalisation and self-righteousness of radical politics;
Practical arts of democratic integration;
Glocalisation of civic citizenship;
Subaltern subjects and the networkisation of informal imperial governance;
Philosophical investigations as a dialog in which feminist voices can be heard;
Struggles over Recognition and dialogical Constitutionalism;
Nonviolent resistance
;
Indigenous Governance.
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
philosopher of civic freedom and political struggles.
Biography
James Tully is one of the four general editor of the Cambridge University Press Ideas in Context Serie. He first gained his reputation for his scholarship on the political philosophy of John LockeJohn Locke
John Locke FRS , widely known as the Father of Liberalism, was an English philosopher and physician regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers. Considered one of the first of the British empiricists, following the tradition of Francis Bacon, he is equally important to social...
, and has written on constitutionalism, diversity, indigenous politics, recognition theory, multiculturalism, and the problem of imperialism. He is a member of the Trudeau Foundation and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
Royal Society of Canada
The Royal Society of Canada , may also operate under the more descriptive name RSC: The Academies of Arts, Humanities and Sciences of Canada , is the oldest association of scientists and scholars in Canada...
. He was special advisor to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples
The Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples was a Canadian Royal Commission established in 1991 to address many issues of aboriginal status that had come to light with recent events such as the Oka Crisis and the Meech Lake Accord. The commission culminated in a final report of 4000 pages,...
(1991-1995). In 2010, he was awarded the prestigious Killam prize in recognition of his distinguished career and exceptional contributions to Canadian scholarship and public life.
Tully has held positions at McGill University
McGill University
Mohammed Fathy is a public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The university bears the name of James McGill, a prominent Montreal merchant from Glasgow, Scotland, whose bequest formed the beginning of the university...
, the University of Toronto
University of Toronto
The University of Toronto is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, situated on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution of higher learning in Upper Canada...
, Cambridge University, Oxford University, and University of Victoria
University of Victoria
The University of Victoria, often referred to as UVic, is the second oldest public research university in British Columbia, Canada. It is a research intensive university located in Saanich and Oak Bay, about northeast of downtown Victoria. The University's annual enrollment is about 20,000 students...
.
After completing his BA at the University of British Columbia
University of British Columbia
The University of British Columbia is a public research university. UBC’s two main campuses are situated in Vancouver and in Kelowna in the Okanagan Valley...
and PhD at Cambridge University, he taught in the departments of Philosophy and Political Science at McGill University
McGill University
Mohammed Fathy is a public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The university bears the name of James McGill, a prominent Montreal merchant from Glasgow, Scotland, whose bequest formed the beginning of the university...
1977-1996. He was Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Victoria 1996-2001. In 2001-2003 he was the inaugural Henry N.R. Jackman Distinguished Professor in Philosophical Studies at the University of Toronto in the departments of Philosophy and Political Science and the Faculty of Law. He returned to the University of Victoria in 2003, where he is now the Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Law, Indigenous Governance and Philosophy.
Political Philosophy
The role of a public philosophy is to address public affairs;What are the ways of thinking that actually bring peace to the conflicts ?
Democratic ethos, self-marginalisation and self-righteousness of radical politics;
Practical arts of democratic integration;
Glocalisation of civic citizenship;
Subaltern subjects and the networkisation of informal imperial governance;
Philosophical investigations as a dialog in which feminist voices can be heard;
Struggles over Recognition and dialogical Constitutionalism;
Nonviolent resistance
Nonviolent resistance
Nonviolent resistance is the practice of achieving goals through symbolic protests, civil disobedience, economic or political noncooperation, and other methods, without using violence. It is largely synonymous with civil resistance...
;
Indigenous Governance.
Lectures and open discussions
- A Dilemma of Democratic Citizenship (University of Victoria, May 2010)
- Democracy and imperialism: The recent work of James Tully. (Symposium in the Humanities and social sciences, Queen Mary University of London, February 2010)
- Rethinking Human Rights and Enlightenment. A View from the Twenty-first Century. (Amnesty Lecture Serie, 2010)
- Democracy, Freedom and Imperialism: Debating James Tully’s Public Philosophy in a New Key (European University Institute Workshop, Villa Schifanoia, Florence, 21-22 September 2009)
Selected Interlocutors
- Linda Martin AlcoffLinda Martín AlcoffLinda Martín Alcoff is a philosopher at the City University of New York who specializes in epistemology, feminism, race theory and existentialism. She is currently the vice president of the APA, Eastern Division. She earned her PhD in Philosophy from Brown University...
- Seyla BenhabibSeyla BenhabibSeyla Benhabib is Eugene Mayer Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at Yale University, and director of the program in Ethics, Politics, and Economics, and a well-known contemporary philosopher. She is the author of several books, most notably about the philosophers Hannah Arendt and...
- Gisela BockGisela BockGisela Bock is a German feminist historian. She studied in Freiburg, Berlin, Paris and Rome. She took her doctorate at the Free University Berlin in 1971 and her Habilitation at the Technical University Berlin in 1984...
- Manuel CastellsManuel CastellsManuel Castells is a sociologist especially associated with information society and communication research....
- Benjamin ConstantBenjamin ConstantHenri-Benjamin Constant de Rebecque was a Swiss-born French nobleman, thinker, writer and politician.-Biography:...
- Michel De Certeau
- Jean Bethke ElshtainJean Bethke Elshtain-Biography:She is the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics at the University of Chicago Divinity School, and is a contributing editor for The New Republic. She is, in addition, newly the Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Chair in the Foundations of American Freedom at...
- Michel FoucaultMichel FoucaultMichel Foucault , born Paul-Michel Foucault , was a French philosopher, social theorist and historian of ideas...
- Alain-G. Gagnon
- Mahatma GandhiMahatma GandhiMohandas Karamchand Gandhi , pronounced . 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was the pre-eminent political and ideological leader of India during the Indian independence movement...
- Carol GilliganCarol GilliganCarol Gilligan is an American feminist, ethicist, and psychologist best known for her work with and against Lawrence Kohlberg on ethical community and ethical relationships, and certain subject-object problems in ethics. She is currently a Professor at New York University and a Visiting Professor...
- Antonio GramsciAntonio GramsciAntonio Gramsci was an Italian writer, politician, political philosopher, and linguist. He was a founding member and onetime leader of the Communist Party of Italy and was imprisoned by Benito Mussolini's Fascist regime...
- Jürgen HabermasJürgen HabermasJürgen Habermas is a German sociologist and philosopher in the tradition of critical theory and pragmatism. He is perhaps best known for his theory on the concepts of 'communicative rationality' and the 'public sphere'...
- Cressida HeyesCressida HeyesCressida J. Heyes is a Canadian philosopher, currently employed as the Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Gender and Sexuality at the University of Alberta, Edmonton...
- Thomas HobbesThomas HobbesThomas Hobbes of Malmesbury , in some older texts Thomas Hobbs of Malmsbury, was an English philosopher, best known today for his work on political philosophy...
- Immanuel KantImmanuel KantImmanuel Kant was a German philosopher from Königsberg , researching, lecturing and writing on philosophy and anthropology at the end of the 18th Century Enlightenment....
- Julia KristevaJulia KristevaJulia Kristeva is a Bulgarian-French philosopher, literary critic, psychoanalyst, sociologist, feminist, and, most recently, novelist, who has lived in France since the mid-1960s. She is now a Professor at the University Paris Diderot...
- Bruno LatourBruno LatourBruno Latour is a French sociologist of science and anthropologist and an influential theorist in the field of Science and Technology Studies...
- Genevieve LloydGenevieve LloydGenevieve Lloyd is an Australian philosopher and feminist. She studied philosophy at the University of Sydney in the early 1960s and then at Somerville College, Oxford. Her D.Phil, awarded in 1973, was on 'Time and Tense'...
- John LockeJohn LockeJohn Locke FRS , widely known as the Father of Liberalism, was an English philosopher and physician regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers. Considered one of the first of the British empiricists, following the tradition of Francis Bacon, he is equally important to social...
- Maria Lugones
- Martha MinowMartha MinowMartha Louise Minow is the Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Professor of Law and the Dean of Harvard Law School. She teaches civil procedure, constitutional law, family law, international criminal justice, jurisprudence, law and education, nonprofit organizations, and the public law workshop...
- Susan Moller OkinSusan Moller OkinSusan Moller Okin was a liberal feminist political philosopher and author.- Works :In 1979 she published Women in Western Political Thought, in which she details the history of the perceptions of women in western political philosophy.Her 1989 book Justice, Gender, and the Family is a critique of...
- Thomas PaineThomas PaineThomas "Tom" Paine was an English author, pamphleteer, radical, inventor, intellectual, revolutionary, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States...
- John RawlsJohn RawlsJohn Bordley Rawls was an American philosopher and a leading figure in moral and political philosophy. He held the James Bryant Conant University Professorship at Harvard University....
- Adrienne RichAdrienne RichAdrienne Cecile Rich is an American poet, essayist and feminist. She has been called "one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half of the 20th century."-Early life:...
- Edward SaidEdward SaidEdward Wadie Saïd was a Palestinian-American literary theorist and advocate for Palestinian rights. He was University Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and a founding figure in postcolonialism...
- Quentin SkinnerQuentin SkinnerQuentin Robert Duthie Skinner is the Barber Beaumont Professor of the Humanities at Queen Mary, University of London.-Biography:...
- Elizabeth Spellman
- Charles TaylorCharles TaylorCharles McArthur Ghankay Taylor was the 22nd President of Liberia, serving from 2 August 1997 until his resignation on 11 August 2003....
- Ludwig WittgensteinLudwig WittgensteinLudwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein was an Austrian philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language. He was professor in philosophy at the University of Cambridge from 1939 until 1947...
- Iris Marion YoungIris Marion YoungIris Marion Young was Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, and affiliated with the Center for Gender Studies and the Human Rights program there...
Selected publications
- Public Philosophy in a New Key (Two Volumes), Cambridge University Press, 2008, ISBN 0521449618 & ISBN 0521449663.
- Rethinking the foundations of modern political thought (edited with Annabel Brett), Cambridge University Press, 2006, ISBN 0521849799.
- Wittgenstein and political philosophy: Understanding Practices of critical Reflection in The Grammar of politics. Wittgenstein and Political Philosophy, pp. 17-42. Ed. Cressida J. Heyes (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2003). An earlier version appeared as "Wittgenstein and Political Philosophy: Understanding Practices of Critical Reflection," Political Theory 17, no.2 (1989):172-204, copyright @ 1989 by Sage Publications, Inc.
- Strange Multiplicity: Constitutionalism in the Age of Diversity, Cambridge University Press, 1995, ISBN 0521471176.
- An Approach To Political Philosophy: Locke in Contexts, Cambridge University Press, 1993, ISBN 0521436389.
- Meaning and Context: Quentin Skinner and his Critics, Polity Press and Princeton University Press, 1988. ISBN 0691023018.
- A Discourse on Property: John Locke and his Adversaries, Cambridge University Press, 1980, ISBN 0521228301.
Recent articles
- "Modern Constitutional Democracy and Imperialism." Osgoode Hall Law Journal 46, 3 (2008): 461-493. (Special issue on Comparative Constitutionalism & Transnational Law). Available: http://www.ohlj.ca/documents/461Tully.pdf
- "Communication and Imperialism" in 1000 Days of Theory (edited by Arthur and Marilouise Kroker), CTheory (2006). Reprinted in The Digitial Studies Reader, ed. A. & M. Kroker ( University of Toronto Press, 2008). Available: http://www.ctheory.net/printer.aspx?id=508.
- "A New Kind of Europe? Democratic Integration in the European Union". Constitutionalism Web-Papers,4 (2006). Available: http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/SchoolofPoliticsInternationalStudiesandPhilosophy/FileStore/ConWEBFiles/Filetoupload,38375,en.pdf