Polity articles from October 2006

Polity archives from October 2006

The republic of the moderns: Paine's and Madison's novel liberalism.(Critical essay)
October 1, 2006... Introduction The relationship between republicanism and liberalism has emerged as a central issue for students of political thought, especially those concerned with the early American republic. For a time, this issue defined an important...

Democracy-promoting judicial review in a two-party system: dealing with second-order preferences *.
October 1, 2006... Introduction What legitimate role can judicial review play in a democracy? Various scholarly attempts to answer this question tend to possess at least one of two general predispositions: trying to show that legislatures are less democratic...

Nietzsche's radicalization of Kant *.(Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche and Immanuel Kant)(Critical essay)
October 1, 2006... Introduction Nietzsche does not reject morality but re-figures it beyond good and evil and alongside a Kantian conception of autonomy. (1) He does not stay within Kant's framework for practical reason but radicalizes it. This is clear in terms...

Reconstructing Dewey: the philosophy of critical pragmatism.(Critical essay)
October 1, 2006... "In dethroning our absolutes, we must take care not to exile our imperatives, for after all, we live by them." --Alain Locke (1) This paper joins a broad discussion of the relationship between John Dewey's pragmatism and the tradition...

Fragile universals and the politics of empire.(Civilising Subjects: Colony and Metropole in the English Imagination, 1830-1867)(Enlightenment Against Empire)(A Turn to Empire: The Rise of Imperial Liberalism in Britain and France)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Catherine Hall. Civilising Subjects: Colony and Metropole in the English Imagination, 1830-1867. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. Sankar Muthu. Enlightenment Against Empire. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. ...