Brian Barry

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Barry in the 1980s

Brian Michael Barry (born August 7, 1936 in London , † March 10, 2009 ) was a British political philosopher who was educated at the University of Oxford .

Barry was Professor of Political Philosophy at Columbia University and Professor of Political Science at the London School of Economics . He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the British Academy .

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Barry was a proponent of libertarian egalitarianism . He repeatedly criticized (multi-) culturalist political approaches of the left, which support the tendency to “divide and rule”. In his book Culture and Equality , he argued that the concept of group rights , such as the right of religious groups to regulate their own affairs, and the admission of exceptions to general legal norms in favor of minority groups, divide society and liberal society Undermine legal order based on individual and not group rights. The politics of multiculturalism tends to isolate and consolidate cultural groups from one another. To do this, he drew on case studies, for example on the situation of the Sikhs in Great Britain and the Amish in the USA.

Fonts (selection)

  • Why Social Justice Matters (Polity 2005)
  • Culture & Equality: An Egalitarian Critique of Multiculturalism (Harvard University Press 2002)
  • Justice as Impartiality (1995)
  • Theories of Justice (Berkeley, 1989)
  • Democracy, Power, and Justice: Essays in Political Theory (Oxford, 1989)
  • The Liberal Theory of Justice (1973)
  • Sociologists, Economists and Democracy (1970)
  • Political Argument (1965, Reissue 1990)

literature

  • Keith M. Dowding, Robert E. Goodin, Carole Pateman, Brian M. Barry: Justice and Democracy: Essays for Brian Barry . Cambridge University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-521-54543-9 (short biography, limited preview in Google Book Search).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Europa Publications: The International Who's Who 2004 . Ed .: Elizabeth Sleeman (=  International Who's Who . Band 67 ). Psychology Press, 2003, ISBN 1-85743-217-7 , pp. 115 (English, limited preview in Google Book search).
  2. ↑ Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter B American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
  3. ↑ BARRY, Professor Brian (07/08 / 1936-10 / 03/2009) ( Memento of the original from April 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. British Academy, Deceased Fellows.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.britac.ac.uk
personal data
SURNAME Barry, Brian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Barry, Brian Michael (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British political philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH March 10, 2009