Doug Boucher
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 118428 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Doug Boucher |
| NOMBRES | Doug |
| APELLIDO | Boucher |
| FIRMA | BOUCHER D |
| AFILIACIONES | Cardiff University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7305-2966 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 63 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 61 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 61 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1977 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
British Idealism and Kant
Although we value Guyer’s particular reading of British Idealist works, we nonetheless consider that his largely textualist-focused approach narrows both the scope and ultimate comprehension of Idealist ethics, particularly in relation to Kant. We consider that Guyer’s analysis misses the depth of their moral understanding. Such Idealist argumentation embodies a rich blending of historical, sociological, political, and evolutionary theory, which …
J. C. Smuts
Reappraising the Life and Legacy of Jan C. Smuts
In this book, the authors cover both familiar and unfamiliar themes.
Hobbes, the State of Nature and the Human Predicament
The triadic conception of the history of political thought, presented by Michael Oakeshott in his edition of Leviathan, is a useful heuristic framework through which to explore the idea of Hobbes’s state of nature. Hobbes’s position comes into sharp relief when examined through the criticisms of representatives from two traditions opposed to that to which Hobbes belongs. By examining the critiques by Pufendorf and Rousseau, representatives of the…
Hobbes, the State of Nature and the Human Predicament (online first)
The triadic conception of the history of political thought, presented by Michael Oakeshott in his edition of Leviathan, is a useful heuristic framework through which to explore the idea of Hobbes’s state of nature. Hobbes’s position comes into sharp relief when examined through the criticisms of representatives from two traditions opposed to that to which Hobbes belongs. By examining the critiques by Pufendorf and Rousseau, representatives of the…
The Palgrave Handbook of International Political Theory
District 9 by Neill Blomkamp
I explore the relation between Neill Blomkamp's science fictional District 9 and Derrida's philosophy in the light of South African history. My aim is to show that this film tells the story of the twenty-first century migrant crisis in Johannesburg, exploring past, actual, or future xenophobic/racist experiences and events, especially those of apartheid and of possible future systems of segregation anticipated in the movie. While Blomkamp was fil…
Appropriating Hobbes
The aim of this book is not to trace the changing fortunes of the interpretation of one of the most sophisticated and famous political philosophers who ever lived, but to glimpse here and there his place in different contexts, and how his interpreters see their own images reflected in him, or how they define themselves in contrast to him. The main claim is that there is no Hobbes independent of the interpretations that arise from his appropriatio…
Constraining Leviathan
In this chapter the place of Hobbes in relation to the twentieth-century crisis of civilization is explored through the writings of Schmitt and Oakeshott. The nature of the crisis is explored, and it becomes evident that the pernicious elements that one perceives as the contributory factors in the decline are what the other claims are the strengths which are being undermined by the crisis. Both Oakeshott and Schmitt are critics of liberalism, but…
History of International Thought
Our attitudes to understanding past texts fall into three conceptually distinct manners of enquiry. The Emblematic Past is resistant to correction, and impervious to criticism, and its characters and events are on permanent loan to the present as symbols indicative of all the vices and virtues of humanity. The Practical Past is the predominant mode of invoking a world of ideas to assist us in working through, or understanding, current problems. I…
Before Anarchy
Sane’ and ‘insane’ imperialism
It is contended that British Idealists, New Liberals and Liberal Imperialists were all in favour of imperialism, especially when it took the form of white settler communities. Where significant differences emerge in their thinking is in relation to non-white territories in the Empire where native peoples comprised the majority, and the British Government and its agents administered in trust ‘lower’ peoples on the scale of civilisation with the os…
Using markets to leverage investment in forest and landscape restoration in the tropics
Idealization and the Agents of Change
Lawrence Hamilton's Are South Africans Free and Freedom Is Power address the question of the relationship between political practice and political theory. The former does so explicitly, and the latter less directly, in relation to twenty years of South African liberation from apartheid. This article begins by reconceptualizing Hamilton's problem and solution in terms of the gulf that exists between the space of experience and the horizon of expec…
Law, Liberty and State
Oakeshott, Hayek and Schmitt are associated with a conservative reaction to the 'progressive' forces of the twentieth century. Each was an acute analyst of the juristic form of the modern state and the relationship of that form to the idea of liberty under a system of public, general law. Hayek had the highest regard for Schmitt's understanding of the rule of law state despite Schmitt's hostility to it, and he owed the distinction he drew in his …
Hobbes's Contribution to International Thought, and the Contribution of International Thought to Hobbes
The aim of this article is to explore in what respects Thomas Hobbes may be regarded as foundational in international thought. It is evident that in contemporary international relations theory he has become emblematic of a realist tradition, but as David Armitage suggests this was not always the case. I want to suggest that it is only in a very limited sense that he may be regarded as a foundational thinker in international relations, and for rea…
Dylan and Cohen
Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen are widely acknowledged as the great pop poets of the 1960s, transforming the popular song into a medium for questionng the personal, social, and political norms of their times. They emerged at a time when the music industry was transforming the revolutionary sound of black music into something bland, homogenous, and fit for mass consumption. For many members of their generation, Dylan and Cohen were able to articulate…
Martin Jay. The Virtues of Mendacity
From the Ancient Greeks, Romans, and later medieval humanists to the present day, a significant body of opinion has lamented the failure of reason and rationality to be persuasive and compelling in public affairs. The great works on rhetoric painstakingly taught the speaker and writer the art of supplementing reason with persuasive adornments, designed to convince and compel. Thomas Hobbes, for example, thoroughly imbued in this tradition, reject…
What is Land For? The Food, Fuel and Climate Change Debate
What is Land For? The Food, Fuel and Climate Change Debate, edited by MichaelWinter and Matt Lobley, London and Washington, Earthscan, 2009, xxþ340 pp.,US$79.95 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-84407-720-5Somewhere on this page there’s a serious case of false advertising. Perhaps it’s in thetitle of the book, which suggests that it is about the global questions surroundingfood production, biofuels and the impacts of climate change. Or perhaps it’s in mytem…
The just war tradition and its modern legacy
The relationship between jus ad bellum and jus in bello has been characterized differently throughout European history. There have been three main positions exemplified by Hugo Grotius, Samuel von Pufendorf and Emer de Vattel. They are, first, both the cause and the conduct of warfare must be just; second, the cause must be just, but the conduct of the war is unconstrained in order to achieve the goal of peace; and, third, we must assume justice …
The Recognition Theory of Rights, Customary International Law and Human Rights
This article addresses the most fundamental question in the philosophy of rights. If there are any moral rights, where do they come from and how do we acquire them? The difficulty of answering the question is compounded when asked in relation to universal rights and obligations where the international community in which they function is far less solidarist than at the domestic level. The suggestion is that while answers that presuppose something …
Classical Theory in International Relations
Classical political theorists such as Thucydides, Kant, Rousseau, Smith, Hegel, Grotius, Mill, Locke and Clausewitz are often employed to explain and justify contemporary international politics and are seen to constitute the different schools of thought in the discipline. However, traditional interpretations frequently ignore the intellectual and historical context in which these thinkers were writing as well as the lineages through which they ca…
What is History and Other Essays
Margins of Disorder
Margins of Disorder: New Liberalism and the Crisis of European Consciousness. By Gal Gerson. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2004. 239p. $45.00. This is a book whose title does not adequately convey its content. On the one hand, it is admirably broad in its scope relating issues in the philosophy of mind, psychology, sociology and of evolutionary biology to politics and ideology. On the other, the anticipation of relating the new libe…
Oakeshott, Freedom and Republicanism
It is contended that Michael Oakeshott resists classification in terms of conventional labels of conservative, liberal, right or left, and that it is difficult to incorporate him in discussions of modern liberal theory because his concerns are not with human rights, distributive justice or multiculturalism. It is with reference to the classical republicanism of Rome that Oakeshott's distinctive contribution to political philosophy is illuminated …
Using markets to leverage investment in forest and landscape restoration in the tropics
The Recognition Theory of Rights, Customary International Law and Human Rights
This article addresses the most fundamental question in the philosophy of rights. If there are any moral rights, where do they come from and how do we acquire them? The difficulty of answering the question is compounded when asked in relation to universal rights and obligations where the international community in which they function is far less solidarist than at the domestic level. The suggestion is that while answers that presuppose something …
Another Look at the End of the World
Doug Boucher ([email protected])teaches ecology at Hood College in Frederick, MD, and works on rain forest ecology and forestry on the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua. David Schwartzman is a biogeochemist in the Biology Department at Howard University ([email protected]). His book Life, Temperature, and the Earth: the Self-Organizing Biosphere appeared in paperback last fall (Columbia University Press). Jane Zara has a Ph.D. in biochemistry and mole…
Oakeshott, Freedom and Republicanism
It is contended that Michael Oakeshott resists classification in terms of conventional labels of conservative, liberal, right or left, and that it is difficult to incorporate him in discussions of modern liberal theory because his concerns are not with human rights, distributive justice or multiculturalism. It is with reference to the classical republicanism of Rome that Oakeshott's distinctive contribution to political philosophy is illuminated …
The Rule of Law in the Modern European State
The idea of the rule of law is central in the European Union’s conception of itself, and stands as one of the most important political criteria of the enlargement process. Some clarification of this core concept is essential if it is to play a meaningful role in enlargement and, indeed, if we are able to make a judgement about whether the criterion is substantive or merely rhetorical. In other words, what purpose must the rule of law serve within…
British Idealism, the State, and International Relations
L'A. vise a montrer que les heritiers anglais de Hegel dans la tradition idealiste, contrairement a ce que leur attribuent des critiques comme Hobhouse et Hobson au debut du 20 e siecle, etaient des internationalistes bien loin de soutenir des theses politiques absolutistes, empreintes de militarisme ou d'imperialisme
The character of the history of the philosophy of international relations and the case of Edmund Burke
I doubt whether the history of mankind is yet complete enough, if ever it can be so, to furnish grounds for a sure theory on the internal causes which necessarily affect the fortune of a state. I am far from denying the operation of such causes: but they are infinitely uncertain, and much more obscure, and much more difficult to trace, than the foreign causes that tend to raise, to depress, and sometimes to overwhelm a community. Edmund Burke
Hobbes's Contribution to International Thought, and the Contribution of International Thought to Hobbes
The aim of this article is to explore in what respects Thomas Hobbes may be regarded as foundational in international thought. It is evident that in contemporary international relations theory he has become emblematic of a realist tradition, but as David Armitage suggests this was not always the case. I want to suggest that it is only in a very limited sense that he may be regarded as a foundational thinker in international relations, and for rea…
Resurrecting Pufendorf and capturing the Westphalian moment
In this article I intend to give more attention to Pufendorf's ideas than has been the custom among international relations theorists. The main focus will be upon Pufendorf's distillation and conceptualization of the implications of Westphalia in terms of sovereignty and the integrity of states. Furthermore, his extension of the Aristotelian classification of types of state, and his attempts to go beyond Bodin's and Hobbes's theories of sovereign…
Inter-Community & International Relations in the Political Philosophy of Hobbes
Relations among commuities, whether among small groups or even among states, are not analogous, this article argues, to the relations among individuals in the state of nature. Hobbes's scattered references to such matters, the author contends, can be notionally distinguished into three categories: first, relations in the hypothetical state of nature; second, relations in the historical state of nature; and third, relations among civil societies. …
Conversation and Political Thought
authors of past political texts. What does this mean? Many historians of political thought imagined themselves to be engaged in a dialogue with political thinkers and considered it to be their imperative duty to expose the incoherencies in pernicious and dangerous doctrines. The pedigree of this predilection is long established and needs no further illustration here. This ahistorical enterprise reflected the Machiavellian predisposition to conver…
New Histories of Political Thought for Old
Over the last few years a number of books have appeared professing to have been inspired in their methodological considerations by the writings of Quentin Skinner. 1 The purpose of this essay is to offer some deliberations upon two important and connected questions. First, in what way are the new histories related to the history of histories of political thought? And, secondly, how far are we on the road to achieving a consensus on the appropriat…
A Comment on Mulligan, Richards and Graham
Sane’ and ‘insane’ imperialism
It is contended that British Idealists, New Liberals and Liberal Imperialists were all in favour of imperialism, especially when it took the form of white settler communities. Where significant differences emerge in their thinking is in relation to non-white territories in the Empire where native peoples comprised the majority, and the British Government and its agents administered in trust ‘lower’ peoples on the scale of civilisation with the os…
What is Land For? The Food, Fuel and Climate Change Debate
What is Land For? The Food, Fuel and Climate Change Debate, edited by MichaelWinter and Matt Lobley, London and Washington, Earthscan, 2009, xxþ340 pp.,US$79.95 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-84407-720-5Somewhere on this page there’s a serious case of false advertising. Perhaps it’s in thetitle of the book, which suggests that it is about the global questions surroundingfood production, biofuels and the impacts of climate change. Or perhaps it’s in mytem…
The just war tradition and its modern legacy
The relationship between jus ad bellum and jus in bello has been characterized differently throughout European history. There have been three main positions exemplified by Hugo Grotius, Samuel von Pufendorf and Emer de Vattel. They are, first, both the cause and the conduct of warfare must be just; second, the cause must be just, but the conduct of the war is unconstrained in order to achieve the goal of peace; and, third, we must assume justice …
Tocqueville, Collingwood, History and Extending the Moral Community
No one in the English-speaking world has done more to establish the autonomy and validity of history as a form of knowledge, integral to our self-understanding, both individually and collectively, and to our understanding of others, whether they are distant in time and mental outlook, or contemporary but nevertheless different, than R. G. Collingwood. Indeed, it has recently been said that he set the agenda for all Anglophone post-war discussion …
"The Significance of R. G. Collingwood's "Principles of History
Evolution and politics
Naturalistic evolution, refined and propagated by Darwin and explored in its social implications by Spencer, proved to be unacceptable to many theorists as a criterion of ethical and political conduct. It is contended that a second variation of evolutionary theory self‐consciously severed the connection between nature and ethics, while a third attempted to synthesise these antithetical theories. Each conception of evolution was capable of generat…
Practical Hegelianism
Henry Jones was one of the most remarkable intellectuals of the Edwardian period in Britain. From his trade as a shoemaker in North Wales he rose to become a school teacher, preacher, Professor of Moral Philosophy in Glasgow University (a chair previously held by Francis Hutcheson, Adam Smith, Thomas Reid and Edward Caird), a leading Liberal intellectual, renowned social reformer, and public orator. He was elected to the Fellowship of the British…
Australian liberalism and corporatism
George Brandis, Tom Harley and Don Markwell (eds), Liberals face the Future: Essays on Australian Liberalism, Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1984, pp. 386, $14.99 (paper) and Katharine West, The Revolution in Australian Politics, Melbourne, Penguin Books, 1984, pp. 116, $4.95 (paper). John Rickard, H.B. Higgins: the rebel as judge. Sydney, Allen & Unwin, 1984, pp.350. $29.95 (cloth). Stuart Macintyre, Militant: the life and times of Paddy Tr…
The Creation of the Past
Michael Oakeshott has gained a considerable reputation in political philosophy. He the doyen of contemporary British idealism, and his idealist inclinations have led him to offer theoretical considerations on a wide variety of matters ranging from religion to horse racing.' One interest to which he persistently returns the philosophy of history, yet comparatively little attention has been given to this aspect of his work.2 This relative neglect s…
Sociobiology Critics Speak Out
On Shklar's and Franklin's Reviews of Skinner, The Foundations of Modern Political Thought (Volume 7, No. 4, November 1979)
A Comment on Mulligan, Richards and Graham
New Histories of Political Thought for Old
Over the last few years a number of books have appeared professing to have been inspired in their methodological considerations by the writings of Quentin Skinner. 1 The purpose of this essay is to offer some deliberations upon two important and connected questions. First, in what way are the new histories related to the history of histories of political thought? And, secondly, how far are we on the road to achieving a consensus on the appropriat…
The Creation of the Past
Michael Oakeshott has gained a considerable reputation in political philosophy. He the doyen of contemporary British idealism, and his idealist inclinations have led him to offer theoretical considerations on a wide variety of matters ranging from religion to horse racing.' One interest to which he persistently returns the philosophy of history, yet comparatively little attention has been given to this aspect of his work.2 This relative neglect s…
Australian liberalism and corporatism
George Brandis, Tom Harley and Don Markwell (eds), Liberals face the Future: Essays on Australian Liberalism, Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1984, pp. 386, $14.99 (paper) and Katharine West, The Revolution in Australian Politics, Melbourne, Penguin Books, 1984, pp. 116, $4.95 (paper). John Rickard, H.B. Higgins: the rebel as judge. Sydney, Allen & Unwin, 1984, pp.350. $29.95 (cloth). Stuart Macintyre, Militant: the life and times of Paddy Tr…
Language, Politics & Paradigms
J. G. A. Pocock's methodological proposals for studying the history of political thought have received considerable attention. In this article, David Boucher examines Pocock's use of the idea of paradigms in building a theory of the linkages between language and political action. He suggests that inner contradictions in Pocock's theory weaken its conclusiveness
Texts in Context
History, Historicism, and Hermeneutics.- One British Idealism and the Philosophy of History: Sources of Sustenance.- Two Historians of Political Thought and Their Critics: Sources of Anxiety.- Three Philosophical History: W.H. Greenleaf and the Study of the History of Political Thought.- Four The Priority of Paradigms: The Pocock Alternative.- Five The View from the Inside: Skinner and the Priority of Retrieving Authorial Intentions.- Assessment …
Conversation and Political Thought
authors of past political texts. What does this mean? Many historians of political thought imagined themselves to be engaged in a dialogue with political thinkers and considered it to be their imperative duty to expose the incoherencies in pernicious and dangerous doctrines. The pedigree of this predilection is long established and needs no further illustration here. This ahistorical enterprise reflected the Machiavellian predisposition to conver…
The Two Leviathans
In this article I draw upon the published and unpublished works of R. G. Collingwood in order to discern the relation between the Leviathan of Hobbes, and that of Collingwood. First, an attempt is made to explain why Hobbes became important for Collingwood, having had no special status in the writings of the latter prior to the composition of The New Leviathan. Secondly, two misconceptions of the ostensible relation between the two Leviathans wil…
Philosophy, History and Practical Life
A treatise on social theory, vol. 2. Substantive social theory
Inter-Community & International Relations in the Political Philosophy of Hobbes
Relations among commuities, whether among small groups or even among states, are not analogous, this article argues, to the relations among individuals in the state of nature. Hobbes's scattered references to such matters, the author contends, can be notionally distinguished into three categories: first, relations in the hypothetical state of nature; second, relations in the historical state of nature; and third, relations among civil societies. …
Practical Hegelianism
Henry Jones was one of the most remarkable intellectuals of the Edwardian period in Britain. From his trade as a shoemaker in North Wales he rose to become a school teacher, preacher, Professor of Moral Philosophy in Glasgow University (a chair previously held by Francis Hutcheson, Adam Smith, Thomas Reid and Edward Caird), a leading Liberal intellectual, renowned social reformer, and public orator. He was elected to the Fellowship of the British…
The character of the history of the philosophy of international relations and the case of Edmund Burke
I doubt whether the history of mankind is yet complete enough, if ever it can be so, to furnish grounds for a sure theory on the internal causes which necessarily affect the fortune of a state. I am far from denying the operation of such causes: but they are infinitely uncertain, and much more obscure, and much more difficult to trace, than the foreign causes that tend to raise, to depress, and sometimes to overwhelm a community. Edmund Burke
The political philosophy of the British idealists
Evolution and politics
Naturalistic evolution, refined and propagated by Darwin and explored in its social implications by Spencer, proved to be unacceptable to many theorists as a criterion of ethical and political conduct. It is contended that a second variation of evolutionary theory self‐consciously severed the connection between nature and ethics, while a third attempted to synthesise these antithetical theories. Each conception of evolution was capable of generat…
The New Leviathan
Book Notes The New Leviathan. By R. G. Colungwood. Revised And With Additional Material Edited By David Boucher. (Oxford UP, 1993. Pp. lxi + 525. Price £50.00.) C.J. B C.J. B Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 43, Issue 173, October 1993, Pages 583–584, https://doi.org/10.2307/2220025 Published: 01 October 1993
British Idealism, the State, and International Relations
L'A. vise a montrer que les heritiers anglais de Hegel dans la tradition idealiste, contrairement a ce que leur attribuent des critiques comme Hobhouse et Hobson au debut du 20 e siecle, etaient des internationalistes bien loin de soutenir des theses politiques absolutistes, empreintes de militarisme ou d'imperialisme
The Social Contract from Hobbes to Rawls
Preface 1.The social contract and its critics: an overview, David Boucher and Paul Kelly 2.Hobbes' contractarianism: A comparative analysis, Murray Forsyth 3.John Locke: Social contract versus political anthropology, Jeremy Waldron 4.Locke's contract in perspective, Martyn P.Thompson 5.History, reason and experience: Hume's arguments against contract theories, Dario Castiglione 6.Rousseau, social contract and the modern Leviathan, Jeremy Jennings…
Political writings
Not with a Bang but a Whimper
Leftist thought, both liberal and Marxist, has embraced the idea of the imminence of global ecological catastrophe, due to the massive environmental damage caused by industrial capitalism. This vision, although widely accepted, is questionable on political, scientific and philosophical grounds. The prediction of catastrophe is present in conservative as well as progressive thought, and can easily lead to regressive politics. Its scientific basis …
Political Theory
Political theory has expanded, diversified, and, some would argue, fragmented. This 1997 book presents work from leading scholars in various fields and reflects key debates in political theory. Its summary discussions will ensure it becomes a key text in political theory courses. Skillfully edited by Andrew Vincent, the book includes such topics as the relationship between history and theory; utilitarianism and rational choice; republicanism; mul…
The British Idealists
The British idealists made significant and lasting contributions to the social and political thought of the nineteenth century. They contributed to the evolution debate in insisting that the social organism could not be understood in naturalistic terms, but instead had to be conceived as an evolving spiritual unity. In this respect the British idealists developed a distinctive view of the state constitutive of the individual and they are commonly…
The Significance of R. G. Collingwood's Principles of History
Journal of the History of Ideas - Volume 58, Number 2, April 1997
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