Entry on Public Reason at SEP
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy has published a new entry on Public Reason, written by Jonathan Quong. The entry is “structured around questions about the nature of public reason that continue...
View ArticleJeremy Waldron on the Political Approach to Human Rights
Jeremy Waldron has posted Human Rights: A Critique of the Raz/Rawls Approach in SSRN. Here is the abstract: This paper examines and criticizes the suggestion that we should interpret the “human” in...
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New Edited Volume: ‘Menschenrechte und Demokratie’
Menschenrechte und Demokratie Georg Lohmann zum 65. Geburtstag Falk Bornmüller / Thomas Hoffmann / Arnd Pollmann (Hrsg.) Verlag Karl Alber, 2013 Description: Die in diesem Band versammelten Beiträge...
View ArticleComprehensive Deliberation
Benjamin Hertzberg (Harvard) has posted Comprehensive Deliberation: Democratic Reasoning Across Religious Difference in SSRN. The paper will be presented at APSA 2013 Annual Meeting. Here is the...
View ArticleJoseph Raz’s Response to Waldron on Human Rights
Joseph Raz has commented on Jeremy Waldron’s recent paper, Human Rights: A Critique of the Raz/Rawls Approach in a new paper posted in SSRN: On Waldron’s Critique of Raz on Human Rights Here is the...
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Martha Nussbaum’s New Book on Political Emotions
Harvard University Press has released this month Martha Nussbaum’s new book, Political Emotions: Why Love Matters for Justice, in 480 pages. Nussbaum is Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of...
View ArticleJustification and Critique
Polity Press has released Rainer Forst’s latest book in English, Justification and Critique: Towards a Critical Theory of Politics. It was first published in German in 2011 by Suhrkamp as Kritik der...
View ArticlePolitical Theory and Its Methodology
Christian List and Laura Valentini (LSE) have posted Political Theory on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Political theory, sometimes also called “normative political theory”, is a subfield of the...
View ArticleNew Defense of Liberal Culturalism
Princeton University Press has released Alan Patten’s new book, Equal Recognition: The Moral Foundations of Minority Rights. Patten is Professor of Politics at Princeton and the author of an important...
View ArticleNew Book: Interactive Democracy
Interactive Democracy: The Social Roots of Global Justice By Carol C. Gould (CUNY) Published by Cambridge University Press (October 2014) Description: How can we confront the problems of diminished...
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