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2011.
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| Summary/Abstract |
What I would like to do in these brief remarks is offer a characterization of
what James Tully calls public philosophy, in part by situating it amongst other
more familiar positions in contemporary political philosophy, but also in part
by suggesting how once we grasp what is distinctive about this approach, it
can help us see that familiar terrain anew. To keep to Tully's musical metaphor, this will be an exercise in amplifying the bass line, the ostinato, in order
to make it easier for the rest of us to join Tully in his new key. With limited
space, what I say will be more suggestive and sketchy than I would like. It will
amount to humming a few bars in the hope that others can take up the tune. Or,
to use one of Tully's favorite images from Wittgenstein, to count 2, 4, 6, in the
hopes that you will know how to go on.
Let me start with a very crude map of three trends in contemporary political philosophy
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