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2011.
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| Summary/Abstract |
James Tully's Public Philosophy in a New Key is a complex intellectual edifice. Tully deftly deploys the philosophical tools forged by, among others,
Wittgenstein, Arendt, Foucault, and Skinner to dismantle the architecture of
modern political reason in order to build in its place a more robust structure
adequate to the needs of a "de-imperialising age."
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The resources he uses are
unusually diverse, ranging across the whole canon of Western political
thought, via historical methodology and critical philosophy, to the works of
contemporary public activists. The result, to paraphrase one philosopher who
is definitely not part of his synthesis, is a building for dwelling, and a dwelling for thinking
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