James Tully (political scientist)

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James Hamilton Tully (born April 17, 1946 ) is a Canadian political scientist . His main subjects are political philosophy , the history of ideas , legal philosophy and the tension between liberal democracy and multiculturalism , with a particular focus on the First Nations .

Life

James Tully received his BA in History from the University of British Columbia in 1974 and his PhD in Political Philosophy from Cambridge University in 1977 . From 1977 to 1996 he taught political science and political philosophy at McGill University on John Locke's theory of property in its intellectual context . At that time he was also an advisor to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples . From 1996 to 2001 he was a professor at the University of Victoria for political science, law, philosophy and indigenous politics, from 2001 to 2003 at the University of Toronto and since 2003 again at the University of Victoria.

Tully publishes the Clarendon edition of John Locke's works and is also the editor of the Ideas in Context book series ( Cambridge University Press ) and the journal Political Theory . He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the Trudeau Foundation .

In 2010 he was awarded the Killam Prize .

Fonts

  • The Unfreedom of the Moderns in relation to constitutional democracy . Modern Law Review. 2002
  • Political Philosophy as a Critical Activity. Stephen Sage Publ. 2004
    • Political Philosophy as Critical Practice. Theory and Society, 62. Transl. Eva Engels. Campus Verlag , 2007
  • Strange Multiplicity: Constitutionalism in an age of diversity . Cambridge University Press , 1995 et al. (French edition 1999)
  • An Approach to Political Philosophy: Locke in contexts. 1993
  • A Discourse on Property: John Locke and his Adversaries . Cambridge University Press, 1980, second edition 1982. (French edition: John Locke. Droit naturel et liberte , PUF, Paris 1991)

As editor

  • John Locke: A Letter Concerning Toleration . Hackett, Indianapolis 1982 et al.
  • Quentin Skinner and his critics . Polity Press and Princeton University Press , Cambridge 1988 et al. Japanese edition 1990, Korean edition 1996, Chinese edition 2005
  • Samuel Pufendorf , On the Duty of Man and Citizen according to Natural Law , tr. Michael Silverthorne, Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought , Cambridge University Press, 1991. Japanese edition 2003
  • Philosophy in an age of pluralism: the philosophy of Charles Taylor in question . Cambridge University Press, 1994
  • with Alain-G. Gagnon: Multinational Democracies, Cambridge University Press, 2001

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ UVic Constitutional Expert Awarded Killam Prize
personal data
SURNAME Tully, James
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tully, James Hamilton (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1946