David Leslie Miller

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David Leslie Miller (born March 8, 1946 ) is a British political philosopher and social scientist who has made influential contributions to nationalism research. Miller is often confused with the philosopher of the same name, David William Miller (* 1942).

Life

Miller received his academic training at Cambridge and Oxford colleges . He then worked at the University of Lancaster and the University of East Anglia . As a visiting scholar he also visited the Australian National University , the University of Bern , the University of Cambridge , the Hebrew University , the University of Ibadan , the University of Melbourne , Queen's University and Uppsala University .

He is currently a professor at Nuffield College , Oxford .

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In Principles of Social Justice Miller defends a pluralistic approach to the concept of social justice in the context of empirical judgment against the unifying liberal or liberitarian approaches of John Rawls and Robert Nozick .

He also represents a subform of "nationalism" that he develops in On Nationality and Citizenship and National Identity . “Nationalism” is not understood as an attitude that ascribes one's own nation superiority over other nations, but rather an approach of political philosophy in which the concept of the nation plays an essential normative role. Miller assumes that a moderate conception of nation within the framework of the modern nation state is existential in order to maintain the welfare state idea. This is justified by the assumption that there are stronger ethical obligations towards members of one's own nation-state than towards members of other nations. Miller thus represents a nation-state-cosmopolitan gradation of ethical obligations, which he seeks to continue in a re-evaluation of the historical material on nationalisms.

criticism

Miller's work has been widely received. In 2003, a comprehensive anthology was published with 17 contributions dealing with his thinking, as well as a replica by David Miller. In 2011 a special edition of the journal Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy followed on the subject of "Nationalism and Global Justice - David Miller and His Critics", also with a final reply from Miller.

Publications (selection)

Monographs

  • David Miller: Strangers in Our Midst. The Political Philosophy of Immigration . Harvard University Press, Cambridge 2016, ISBN 978-0-674-08890-0 (English, 212 pages).
    • David Miller: Strangers in our midst. Political Philosophy of Immigration . Frankfurt am Main, Suhrkamp 2017, ISBN 978-3-518-58711-9 (330 pages).
  • David Miller: Justice for Earthlings. Essays in Political Philosophy . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2013, ISBN 978-1-107-61375-1 (English, 262 pages).
  • David Miller: National Responsibility and Global Justice . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2007, ISBN 978-0-19-965071-2 (English, 306 pages).
  • David Miller: Political Philosophy. A very short introduction . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2003, ISBN 978-0-19-280395-5 (English, 156 pages).
  • David Miller: Citizenship and National Identity . Polity Press, Cambridge 2000, ISBN 978-0-7456-2394-8 (English, 226 pages).
  • David Miller: Principles of Social Justice . Harvard University Press, Cambridge 1999, ISBN 978-0-674-00714-7 (English, 352 pages).
    • David Miller: Principles of Social Justice . Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-593-38152-7 (382 pages).
  • David Miller: On Nationality . Clarendon Press, Oxford 1995, ISBN 978-0-19-829356-9 (English, 222 pages).
  • David Miller: Market, State, and Community. Theoretical Foundations of Market Socialism . Clarendon Press, Oxford 1989, ISBN 978-0-19-827864-1 (English, 382 pages).
  • David Miller: Anarchism . JM Dent & Sons, London 1984, ISBN 978-0-460-10093-9 (English, 240 pages).
  • David Miller: Philosophy and Ideology in Hume's Political Thought . Clarendon Press, Oxford 1981, ISBN 978-0-19-824658-9 (English, 218 pages).
  • David Miller: Social Justice . Clarendon Press, Oxford 1976, ISBN 978-0-19-824621-3 (English, 367 pages).

Editions

  • Michael Walzer: Thinking Politically . Ed .: David Miller. Yale University Press, New Haven 2007, ISBN 978-0-300-14322-5 (English, 356 pages).
  • David Miller (Ed.): The Liberty Reader . Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh 2006, ISBN 978-0-7486-2485-0 (English, 240 pages).
  • David Miller and Sohail Hashmi (Eds.): Boundaries and Justice. Various ethical perspectives . Princeton University Press, Princeton 2001, ISBN 978-0-691-08800-6 (English, 380 pages).
  • David Miller and Michael Walzer (Eds.): Pluralism, Justice and Equality . Clarendon Press, Oxford 1995, ISBN 978-0-19-827937-2 (English, 320 pages).
  • David Miller (Ed.): Liberty . Clarendon Press, Oxford 1991, ISBN 978-0-19-878041-0 (English, 223 pages).
  • David Miller, Janet Coleman, William Connolly, and Alan Ryan (Eds.): The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Political Thought . Blackwell, Oxford 1986, ISBN 978-0-631-17944-3 (English, 588 pages).
  • David Miller and Larry Siedentop (Eds.): The Nature of Political Theory . Oxford, Clarendon Press 1983, ISBN 978-0-19-827473-5 (English, 270 pages).

Contributions to edited volumes

  • David Miller: Needs-Based Justice. Theory and Evidence . In: Alexander Max Bauer and Malte Ingo Meyerhuber (Eds.): Empirical Research and Normative Theory. Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Two Methodical Traditions Between Separation and Interdependence . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin and Boston 2020, ISBN 978-3-11-061209-7 , pp. 273-294 (English).
  • David Miller: Personhood Versus Human Needs as Grounds for Human Rights . In: Roger Crisp (Ed.): Griffin on Human Rights . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2014, ISBN 978-0-19-966873-1 , pp. 152-169 , doi : 10.1093 / acprof: oso / 9780199668731.003.0007 (English).
  • David Miller: Social Justice and the Principle of Need . In: Michael Freeman and David Robertson (Eds.): The Frontiers of Political Theory. Essays in a Revitalized Discipline . Harvester, Brighton 1980, ISBN 978-0-312-30920-6 , pp. 173-197 (English).

Articles in trade journals

literature

  • Friedemann Bieber: Where immigration finds its legitimate limits . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . November 24, 2017, p. 10 ( faz.net ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. David Miller: Crooked Timber or Bent Twig? Isaiah Berlin's Nationalism . In: Political Studies . tape 53 , no. 1 , 2005, ISSN  1467-9248 , p. 100-123 , doi : 10.1111 / j.1467-9248.2005.00519.x (English, wiley.com ).
  2. ↑ Daniel Bell and Avner de-Shalit (eds.): Forms of Justice. Critical Perspectives on David Miller's Political Philosophy . Rowman & Littlefield, Boston 2003, ISBN 978-0-7425-2179-7 (English).
  3. ^ Nationalism and Global Justice. David Miller and His Critics . In: Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy . tape 11 , no. 4 , 2008, ISSN  1369-8230 (English, tandfonline.com ).
personal data
SURNAME Miller, David Leslie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1946