Freedom and Democracy in an Imperial Context

Robert Nichols is Assistant Professor of Political Theory at the University of Alberta (Canada). His areas of research include 19th and 20th century continental philosophy and the study of imperialism and settler-colonialism in the history of political thought. Jakeet Singh is Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics & Government at Illinois State University. His research interests include imperialism and postcolonialism, social justice, and critiques of (neo)liberal-democracy. His work has appeared in Third World Quarterly and Theory, Culture & Society.

1. Editor’s Introduction, Robert Nichols & Jakeet Singh; PART I: Recasting Public Philosophy: 2. Engagement, Proposals and the Key of Reasoning, Anthony Simon Laden; 3. Freedom as practice and Civic genius: On James Tully’s Public Philosophy, Eduardo Mendieta; 4. At the Edges of Civic Freedom: Violence, Power, Enmity, Antonio Vázquez-Arroyo; 5. "’[Un]Dazzled by the ideal?’—James Tully and New Realism, Bonnie Honig; PART II: In Dialogue with the Past: 6. Vattel, Imperialism, and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Antony Anghie; 7. On the Moral Justification of Reparation for New World Slavery, David Scott; 8. Postnational Constellations? Political Citizenship and the Modern State, Christian Emden; PART III: Re-Imagining Civic Freedom Today: 9. Spaces of Freedom, Citizenship and State in the Context of Globalization: South Africa and Bolivia, Eunice N. Sahle; 10. ‘Becoming Black’: Acting Otherwise and Re-imagining Community, Aletta J. Norval; 11. Accessing Tully: Political Philosophy for the Everyday and the Everyone, Val Napoleon and Hadley Friedland; PART IV: 12. Responses: James Tully