James Tully (philosopher)

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James Hamilton Tully (born 1946), FRSC, is a Canadian political philosopher. He is known for his scholarship on the political philosophy of John Locke, and also writes on constitutionalism, diversity, indigenous politics, recognition theory, multiculturalism, and the problem of imperialism.

Tully earned a BA from the University of British Columbia and a PhD from Cambridge University. He is a member of the Trudeau Foundation and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He was special advisor to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.

Tully has held positions at McGill University, the University of Toronto, Cambridge University and Oxford University. Since 2003, he is the Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Law, Indigenous Governance and Philosophy at the University of Victoria.

2001 “Introduction”, Multinational Democracies, ed. Alain-G. Gagnon and James Tully ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), pp.1-34.

2001 “Reconsidering the British Columbia Treaty Process”, Speaking Truth to Power: A Treaty Forum, ed. Roderick A. MacDonald ( Ottawa: Law Commission of Canada, 2001), 3-19.

2002 “The Kantian idea of Europe: Critical and Cosmopolitan Perspectives”, The Idea of Europe from Antiquity to the European Union, ed. Anthony Pagden ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press and the Woodrow Wilson Center, 2002), pp.331-358.

2002 “Défi constitutionnel et art de la résistance: la question des peuples autochtones au Canada”, Altérité et Droit: Contributions à l’étude du rapport entre droit et culture, sous la direction de Isabelle Schulte-Tenckhoff (Bruxelles: Bruylant, 2002), pp.263-300. Translation of “The Struggles of Indigenous Peoples for and of Freedom”.

2002 “Reimagining Belonging in Circumstances of Cultural Diversity: A citizen approach”, Ulf Hedetoft and Mette Hjort, eds. The Postnational Self: Belonging and Identity ( Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 2002) pp.152-177.

2002 “The Illiberal Liberal: Brian Barry’s Polemical Attack on Multiculturalism”, Multiculturalism Reconsidered, ed. Paul Kelly ( Cambridge, Polity Press, 2002) pp. 102-113.

2003 “Ethical Pluralism and Classical Liberalism”, The Many and the One, ed. Richard Madsen and Tracy B. Strong, (Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2003) pp. 78-89.

2003 “Wittgenstein and Political Philosophy: Understanding practices of critical reflection,’ The Grammar of Politics: Wittgenstein and political philosophy, ed. Cressida J. Heyes, ( Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2003) pp.17-42.

2003 “The Activities of Reconciling Diversity with Unity as the basis of Cohesion”, The Limits to Diversity: Canada and Europe in Comparative Perspectives, ed. Robert Higham ( Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2003), pp. 86-98.

2003 “Identity Politics”, Cambridge History of Twentieth Century Political Thought, ed. Richard Bellamy and Terence Ball ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), pp. 517-34.

2003 Strange Multiplicity”, Excerpts, Festenstein and Kelly, eds. Political Ideologies – A Reader and Guide ( Oxford University Press).

2003 “Struggles of Indigenous Peoples for and of Freedom”, reprint, Box of Treasures of Empty Box: 20 years of section 35, ed. Ardith Walkem and Halie Bruce ( Vancouver: Theytus Books) pp.272-308.

2004 “Political Philosophy as a Critical Activity”, What is Political Theory? Ed. Stephen White and Donald Moon ( London: Sage Publications) pp.80-102.

2005 “The Historical Formation of Common Constitutionalism: the rediscovery of cultural diversity”, Political Concepts, ed. Iain MacKenzie ( Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press), reprinted from Strange Multiplicity.

2005 “Exclusion and Assimilation: two forms of domination”, Domination and Exclusion, ed. Melissa Williams and Stephen Macedo ( Princeton: Princeton University Press, forthcoming).

2005 “A Response to Blake and Wenar”, Domination and Exclusion.

2005 ‘Samuel Pufendorf on War and Peace’, in The Ethics of War : An Anthology, ed. Syse Reichberg, (Oxford : Basil Blackwell, 2005), Reprint from Tully, ed. On the Duty of Man and Citizen (Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1991).

2005 “Exclusion and Assimilation: two forms of domination”, Domination and Exclusion, ed. Melissa Williams and Stephen Macedo (Princeton: Princeton University Press), pp.191-229.

2005 “A Response to Professors Blake and Wenar”, Domination and Exclusion, pp.250-58.

2005 “James Tully, Strange Multiplicity”, reprinted in The Development of Political Thought in Canada: an anthology, edited by Katherine Fierlbeck (Toronto: Broadview Press, 2005), pp.275- 95.

2005 “The Unfreedom of the Moderns”, Constitutionalism and Democracy, ed. Richard Bellamy, in The International Library of Essays in Law and Legal Theory (2nd Series), ed. Tom D. Campbell (London: Ashgate), Reprint.

2006 « Rediscovering America : The Two Treatises and Aboriginal Rights », in John Locke : Critical Assessments, ed. Peter Anstey (Oxford University Press), Reprint.

2006 “Constitutional Pluralism”, in Comparative Constitutional Law, Second Edition, edited by Vicki Jackson and Mark Tushnet, Foundation Press. Reprint from Strange Multiplicity.

2006 “Intercultural citizens, gender difference, and three conventions”, Comparative Constitutional Law, Second Edition, edited by Vicki Jackson and Mark Tushnet, Foundation Press. Reprint.

2006 ‘Multinational Democracy’, Comparative Constitutional Law, Second Edition, edited by Vicki Jackson and Mark Tushnet, Foundation Press. Reprint from Multinational Democracy.

2006 ‘Reconciling Struggles over the Recognition of Minorities: Towards a Dialogical Approach’, Diversity and Equality: The changing framework of freedom in Canada, ed. Avigail Eisenberg, Vancouver: UBC Press, 15-33.

2. Articles: 2001-2006

2001 “La conception républicaine de la citoyenneté dans la cadre des sociétés multiculturelles et multinationales’, Politique et Sociétés, special edition, 21, 1 (Fall 2001), pp.204-228.

“Caricatures of Multiculturalism”, Review Symposium, Ethnicities, 2, 2 (July 2002), pp.279-283.

2002 “The Unfreedom of the Moderns in relation the ideals of constitutional democracy”, Modern Law Review, 65, 2 (March 2002), pp.204-228.

2002 “Political Philosophy as a Critical Activity”, special edition, Political Theory, 30, 4 (August 2002), pp.533-556.

“Politische Philosophie als kritisches Handeln”, Deutsche Zeitscrhrift fur Philosophie, 51, 1 (2003), pp. 1-23.

2003 “Diverse Enlightenments”, Economy and Society, 32, 3 (August 2003), pp. 485- 505.

2003 “La liberté civique en contexte de globalisation”, Les Cahiers du Juin 27, 1/2 (Octobre), pp. 1-10.

2004 “Recognition and Dialogue: The Emergence of a New Field”, Critical Review of International social and Political Philos0phy, 7, 3 (Autumn 2004), pp.84-106.

2004 “Approaches to Recognition, Power and Dialogue: a review of six books”, Political Theory, 32, 6 (December) pp.855-63.

2005 ‘Communicative Networks, Hegemony, and Communicative Action’, ConWEB Papers,(3, 2005), Antje Weiner and Stephen Toope, (ed.), electronic journal of European Union legal and political studies, Queens University, Belfast, http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/SchoolofPoliticsInternationalStudiesandPhilosophy/Research/PaperSeries/ConWEBPapers/.

2006 ‘Communication and Imperialism’, 1000 Days of Theory, CTheory, td035, 2/22/2006, 32 pages, edited by Arthur and Marilouise Kroker, an electronic journal of theory and cultural politics, http://www.ctheory.net/printer.aspx?id=508.

2006 ‘A New kind of Europe: democratic integration in the European Union’, Critical Review of International Social andPolitical Philosophy, 7, 1 (2007).

Reprinted in Constitutional Papers, ConWEB, 4 (2006), pp.1-22 (electronic journal above).

Reprinted in Cultural Transformation, David Held (ed.) (Cambridge: Polity, 2006).

3. Books

2001 Editor with Alain-G. Gagnon, and Introduction, Multinational Democracies, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

2003, 2005 Japanese and Chinese editions of Pufendorf: on the Duty of Man and Citizen (1991).

2005 Chinese edition of Meaning and Context: Quentin Skinner and his critics (1988).

2005 Korean and Japanese editions of Strange Multiplicity: Constitutionalism in an age of diversity (1995).

2006 Japanese edition of An Approach to Political Philosophy (1992).

4. Public Lectures

March 13, 2008, Global Citizenship, President's Distinguished Professor Lecture Series, University of Victoria.

March 10-11, 2005, On Law, Democracy and Imperialism, Twenty-First Annual Public Lecture, Centre for Law and Society, University of Edinburgh.

September 9-10, 2005, Two Meanings of Global Citizenship: Modern and Diverse, The Meanings of Global Citizenship Conference, Liu Centre and Trudeau Foundation, UBC.

September 30, 2005, The Nature of the 'New' Imperialism, Victoria Colloquium & Demcon Conference, University of Victoria.

2005 “On Law, Democracy and Imperialism”, 21st Annual Public Lecture on Law and Society, Faculty of Law, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, March 10-11, 2005.

2005 “Two Meanings of Global Citizenship”, The Meanings of Global Citizenship, Centre for the Study of Global Issues, University of British Columbia, Vancouver BC, September 9-10, 2005.

2005 “On the Nature of the ‘New’ Imperialism”, Victoria Colloquium on Democratic Constitutionalism, Faculty of Law, University of Victoria, September 30, 2005.

2005 “Recognition and Dialogue”, University of California at Los Angeles Department of Political Science, Los Angeles, October 25, 2005.

2005 “On the Question of Global Public Spheres”, Keynote Address, Changing Perceptions of the Public Sphere, Rice University, Houston Texas, December 15-17, 2005.

2006 “The Imperial Dimensions of Modern Constitutionalism”, The Conference on Constitutional Form and Constituent Power, Faculty of Law, European University Institute, Florence, March 24-25, 2006.

2006 “Reflections on Democratic Constitutionalism”, The First Annual Lecture on Democratic Constitutionalism, Departments of Politics, International Relations, Law and Philosophy, and the Institute of Governance, Queens University Belfast, March 28-29.

2006 ‘Discussion of Governance and Democracy’, British Columbia Political Studies Association Annual Meeting, Nanaimo, BC, May 5-6.

2006 ‘A New Kind of Europe’, Distinguished Lecture, The Biennial Conference of the European Community Studies Association, Victoria, BC, May 18-20.

2006 Assistant and participant, Graduate Students Workshop in Indigenous Stuies, Sponsored by the Trudeau Foundation, University of Victoria, May 19-20.

2008 'Global Citizenship' A lecture on glocal citizens making a difference. ^[1]

Tully presented a lecture at Duke University with De Sousa Santos in 2004.

Rumour around campus is that Tully's abundant wisdom was the basis for "ents" in Lord of the Rings. As well, he can trace direct lineage to King David.

[edit] Selected publications

Rethinking the foundations of modern political thought (edited with Annabel Brett), Cambridge University Press, 2006, ISBN 0521849799.
Strange Multiplicity: Constitutionalism in the Age of Diversity, Cambridge University Press, 1995, ISBN 0521471176.
An Approach To Political Philosophy: Locke in Contexts, Cambridge University Press, 1993, ISBN 0521436389.
A Discourse on Property: John Locke and his Adversaries, Cambridge University Press, 1980, ISBN 0521228301.