Glen Newey
Biographic Data
| ID | 461847 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Glen Newey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Glen |
| FAMILY NAME | Newey |
| SIGNATURE | NEWEY G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Keele University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 56 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Politics Recovered
Politics Recovered brings together prominent scholars to develop the idea of what it might mean to theorize politics “realistically.” By exploring the nature, distinctiveness, and prospects of realist thought, it shows how political theory can provide meaningful and compelling answers to the fundamental questions of political life.
A world without why
A World Without Why collects essays, of which some are new, others already published, on topics that interest Raymond Geuss, including architecture, theology, Marxism, tragedy, ethics and the (lack of) unity of academic philosophy as a discipline. A theme running through the essays is a critical, or at least skeptical, stance towards the ‘Enlightenment project’ of explanation and rationalisation, familiar from the Frankfurt School. In Geuss, that…
What is important in theorizing tolerance today
Toleration in Political Conflict
Political disputes over toleration are endemic, while toleration as a political value seems opposed to those of civic equality, neutrality and sometimes democracy. Toleration in Political Conflict sets out to understand toleration as both politically awkward and indispensable. The book exposes the incoherence of Rawlsian reasonable pluralist justifications of toleration, and shows that toleration cannot be fully reconciled with liberal political …
The Political Theory of John Gray
(Provisional) John Horton & Gray in Grey: The Evolution of John Gray's Political Thought Glen Newey Glyn Morgan Gray's Mill Jonathan Riley Gray's Berlin George Crowder Value-Pluralism and Liberalism Noel O'Sullivan Nihilism, Liberalism and Modernity in the Political Thought of John Gray Andrew Chitty Gray and Marxism George Kateb ? John Barry Gray's Discovery of Ecology Stuart White ? Gray and the Practice of Modern Politics John Horton 'Modus Vi…
Just politics
This paper asks whether political justice can be encapsulated by procedures. It examines John Rawls’s tripartite distinction between perfect, pure and imperfect procedural justice, concluding that none gives a satisfactory account of procedural justice. Imperfect procedural justice assumes that there could be an authoritative source of justice other than procedures, while perfect procedural justice takes a double-minded view of procedure-independ…
Multiculturalism and moral conflict
Toleration as sedition
This paper examines and criticizes the defence of toleration due to John Rawls in Political Liberalism, and similar strategies mobilized in defence of toleration. It argues that the notion of the burdens of judgement, used by Rawls to defend his doctrine of reasonable pluralism, faces incoherence: schematically, either disagreement succumbs to reason, or vice versa. On similar grounds, reasonable disagreement defences of neutrality fail because o…
Democracy and resentment
Redescriptions: Political Thought, Conceptual History and Feminist Theory is an international refereed open access journal, which publishes contributions on the transdisciplinary study of concepts. In classical rhetoric, ‘redescription’ refers to a rhetorical move that alters the use of a concept in one respect or another. The journal draws attention to conceptual moves within political theory, conceptual history and feminist thought, and highlig…
Political Toleration
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Two dogmas of liberalism
This article is on political normativity. It urges scepticism about attempts to reduce political normativity to morality. Modern liberalism leaves a question about how far morality can be accommodated by the form of normativity characteristic of politics. The article casts doubt on whether individual moral norms carry over to collective, for example, political, action, and whether the former ‘trump’ other kinds of reasons in politics. It then ske…
Toleration and Its Limits
John Gray
John Gray is one of the most challenging and controversial political theorists in the English‐speaking world. He is currently Professor of European Thought at the London School of Economics, having
Gray’s Blues
Through its numerous changes of course, John Gray’s political theory has continued to grapple with pessimism – the failure of ideals of human betterment. The movements in Gray’s thought – from neo‐liberalism to conservatism, and thence via value‐pluralism and modus vivendi liberalism to radical anti‐humanism – can in each case be understood as responding to failure by attempts to find a new and more modest role for theory. Gray does this by navig…
Anna Elisabetta Galeotti , Toleration as Recognition (Cambridge
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Discourse Rights and the Drumcree Marches
In a recent BJPIR article Shane O'Neill uses Habermas' discourse theory of rights to argue that the conflicts over marches in Drumcree can be resolved rationally in the nationalist residents' favour. I question this conclusion via a critique of Habermas' theory. Habermas' apparently unexceptionable requirement that political outcomes win universal acceptability is bought at the cost of vagueness: it fails to specify how acceptability is secured, …
Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Hobbes and Leviathan (Routledge Philosophy Guidebooks)
Is Democratic Toleration a Rubber Duck
Philosophy, politics and contestability
The essential contestability thesis continues to enjoy widespread support, and has been invoked as an explanatory fact in analysing ideological morphology. This paper argues, however, that the general form of the thesis faces incoherence or failure: it violates plausible constraints on concept-possession, and is forced to rely either on an esoteric doctrine which shortcircuits the thesis's original explanatory rationale, or on an error theory whi…
Virtue, Reason and Toleration
Toleration is becoming an increasingly questioned issue in modern democratic and multicultural societies and is debated within the academic disciplines of politics, history and cultural and literary studies. In this book Glen Newey systematically analyses toleration in relation to broader issues in meta-ethical theory and offers a new, rigorous philosophical theory of toleration as a virtue. A wide range of questions in ethical theory is addresse…
Value-Pluralism in Contemporary Liberalism
Plusieurs libéraux modernes soutiennent que le pluralisme des valeurs a d'importantes conséquences pour l'élaboration des procédures et des institutions politiques. Mais les arguments fondés sur l'incommensurability et sur I'indétermination de la rationalité ou de la délibération se révèlent tous compatibles avec le monisme; et certaines formes de pluralisme sont compatibles soit avec une hiérarchisation des valeurs soit avec une hiérarchisation …
Against thin-property reductivism
Metaphysics Postponed
Many recent liberal theorists have argued that state neutrality is supported by a metaphysical thesis about value, namely pluralism, which asserts that there are some conceptions of the good life which neither form a hierarchy nor represent versions of a single good. It is however doubtful whether neutrality is supported by pluralism; indeed, it may in some cases be precluded by it. Arguments for pluralism can, in many cases, be reconciled with a…
Philosophical aromatherapy
Two dogmas of liberalism
This article is on political normativity. It urges scepticism about attempts to reduce political normativity to morality. Modern liberalism leaves a question about how far morality can be accommodated by the form of normativity characteristic of politics. The article casts doubt on whether individual moral norms carry over to collective, for example, political, action, and whether the former ‘trump’ other kinds of reasons in politics. It then ske…
Metaphysics Postponed
Many recent liberal theorists have argued that state neutrality is supported by a metaphysical thesis about value, namely pluralism, which asserts that there are some conceptions of the good life which neither form a hierarchy nor represent versions of a single good. It is however doubtful whether neutrality is supported by pluralism; indeed, it may in some cases be precluded by it. Arguments for pluralism can, in many cases, be reconciled with a…
Value-Pluralism in Contemporary Liberalism
Plusieurs libéraux modernes soutiennent que le pluralisme des valeurs a d'importantes conséquences pour l'élaboration des procédures et des institutions politiques. Mais les arguments fondés sur l'incommensurability et sur I'indétermination de la rationalité ou de la délibération se révèlent tous compatibles avec le monisme; et certaines formes de pluralisme sont compatibles soit avec une hiérarchisation des valeurs soit avec une hiérarchisation …
Discourse Rights and the Drumcree Marches
In a recent BJPIR article Shane O'Neill uses Habermas' discourse theory of rights to argue that the conflicts over marches in Drumcree can be resolved rationally in the nationalist residents' favour. I question this conclusion via a critique of Habermas' theory. Habermas' apparently unexceptionable requirement that political outcomes win universal acceptability is bought at the cost of vagueness: it fails to specify how acceptability is secured, …
Virtue, Reason and Toleration
Toleration is becoming an increasingly questioned issue in modern democratic and multicultural societies and is debated within the academic disciplines of politics, history and cultural and literary studies. In this book Glen Newey systematically analyses toleration in relation to broader issues in meta-ethical theory and offers a new, rigorous philosophical theory of toleration as a virtue. A wide range of questions in ethical theory is addresse…
What is important in theorizing tolerance today
Political Toleration
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Is Democratic Toleration a Rubber Duck
Philosophy, politics and contestability
The essential contestability thesis continues to enjoy widespread support, and has been invoked as an explanatory fact in analysing ideological morphology. This paper argues, however, that the general form of the thesis faces incoherence or failure: it violates plausible constraints on concept-possession, and is forced to rely either on an esoteric doctrine which shortcircuits the thesis's original explanatory rationale, or on an error theory whi…
Gray’s Blues
Through its numerous changes of course, John Gray’s political theory has continued to grapple with pessimism – the failure of ideals of human betterment. The movements in Gray’s thought – from neo‐liberalism to conservatism, and thence via value‐pluralism and modus vivendi liberalism to radical anti‐humanism – can in each case be understood as responding to failure by attempts to find a new and more modest role for theory. Gray does this by navig…
Toleration as sedition
This paper examines and criticizes the defence of toleration due to John Rawls in Political Liberalism, and similar strategies mobilized in defence of toleration. It argues that the notion of the burdens of judgement, used by Rawls to defend his doctrine of reasonable pluralism, faces incoherence: schematically, either disagreement succumbs to reason, or vice versa. On similar grounds, reasonable disagreement defences of neutrality fail because o…
Philosophical aromatherapy
Against thin-property reductivism
Metaphysics Postponed
Many recent liberal theorists have argued that state neutrality is supported by a metaphysical thesis about value, namely pluralism, which asserts that there are some conceptions of the good life which neither form a hierarchy nor represent versions of a single good. It is however doubtful whether neutrality is supported by pluralism; indeed, it may in some cases be precluded by it. Arguments for pluralism can, in many cases, be reconciled with a…
Value-Pluralism in Contemporary Liberalism
Plusieurs libéraux modernes soutiennent que le pluralisme des valeurs a d'importantes conséquences pour l'élaboration des procédures et des institutions politiques. Mais les arguments fondés sur l'incommensurability et sur I'indétermination de la rationalité ou de la délibération se révèlent tous compatibles avec le monisme; et certaines formes de pluralisme sont compatibles soit avec une hiérarchisation des valeurs soit avec une hiérarchisation …
Virtue, Reason and Toleration
Toleration is becoming an increasingly questioned issue in modern democratic and multicultural societies and is debated within the academic disciplines of politics, history and cultural and literary studies. In this book Glen Newey systematically analyses toleration in relation to broader issues in meta-ethical theory and offers a new, rigorous philosophical theory of toleration as a virtue. A wide range of questions in ethical theory is addresse…
Is Democratic Toleration a Rubber Duck
Philosophy, politics and contestability
The essential contestability thesis continues to enjoy widespread support, and has been invoked as an explanatory fact in analysing ideological morphology. This paper argues, however, that the general form of the thesis faces incoherence or failure: it violates plausible constraints on concept-possession, and is forced to rely either on an esoteric doctrine which shortcircuits the thesis's original explanatory rationale, or on an error theory whi…
Discourse Rights and the Drumcree Marches
In a recent BJPIR article Shane O'Neill uses Habermas' discourse theory of rights to argue that the conflicts over marches in Drumcree can be resolved rationally in the nationalist residents' favour. I question this conclusion via a critique of Habermas' theory. Habermas' apparently unexceptionable requirement that political outcomes win universal acceptability is bought at the cost of vagueness: it fails to specify how acceptability is secured, …
Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Hobbes and Leviathan (Routledge Philosophy Guidebooks)
John Gray
John Gray is one of the most challenging and controversial political theorists in the English‐speaking world. He is currently Professor of European Thought at the London School of Economics, having
Gray’s Blues
Through its numerous changes of course, John Gray’s political theory has continued to grapple with pessimism – the failure of ideals of human betterment. The movements in Gray’s thought – from neo‐liberalism to conservatism, and thence via value‐pluralism and modus vivendi liberalism to radical anti‐humanism – can in each case be understood as responding to failure by attempts to find a new and more modest role for theory. Gray does this by navig…
Anna Elisabetta Galeotti , Toleration as Recognition (Cambridge
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Toleration and Its Limits
Democracy and resentment
Redescriptions: Political Thought, Conceptual History and Feminist Theory is an international refereed open access journal, which publishes contributions on the transdisciplinary study of concepts. In classical rhetoric, ‘redescription’ refers to a rhetorical move that alters the use of a concept in one respect or another. The journal draws attention to conceptual moves within political theory, conceptual history and feminist thought, and highlig…
Political Toleration
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Two dogmas of liberalism
This article is on political normativity. It urges scepticism about attempts to reduce political normativity to morality. Modern liberalism leaves a question about how far morality can be accommodated by the form of normativity characteristic of politics. The article casts doubt on whether individual moral norms carry over to collective, for example, political, action, and whether the former ‘trump’ other kinds of reasons in politics. It then ske…
Toleration as sedition
This paper examines and criticizes the defence of toleration due to John Rawls in Political Liberalism, and similar strategies mobilized in defence of toleration. It argues that the notion of the burdens of judgement, used by Rawls to defend his doctrine of reasonable pluralism, faces incoherence: schematically, either disagreement succumbs to reason, or vice versa. On similar grounds, reasonable disagreement defences of neutrality fail because o…
Just politics
This paper asks whether political justice can be encapsulated by procedures. It examines John Rawls’s tripartite distinction between perfect, pure and imperfect procedural justice, concluding that none gives a satisfactory account of procedural justice. Imperfect procedural justice assumes that there could be an authoritative source of justice other than procedures, while perfect procedural justice takes a double-minded view of procedure-independ…
Multiculturalism and moral conflict
Toleration in Political Conflict
Political disputes over toleration are endemic, while toleration as a political value seems opposed to those of civic equality, neutrality and sometimes democracy. Toleration in Political Conflict sets out to understand toleration as both politically awkward and indispensable. The book exposes the incoherence of Rawlsian reasonable pluralist justifications of toleration, and shows that toleration cannot be fully reconciled with liberal political …
The Political Theory of John Gray
(Provisional) John Horton & Gray in Grey: The Evolution of John Gray's Political Thought Glen Newey Glyn Morgan Gray's Mill Jonathan Riley Gray's Berlin George Crowder Value-Pluralism and Liberalism Noel O'Sullivan Nihilism, Liberalism and Modernity in the Political Thought of John Gray Andrew Chitty Gray and Marxism George Kateb ? John Barry Gray's Discovery of Ecology Stuart White ? Gray and the Practice of Modern Politics John Horton 'Modus Vi…
What is important in theorizing tolerance today
A world without why
A World Without Why collects essays, of which some are new, others already published, on topics that interest Raymond Geuss, including architecture, theology, Marxism, tragedy, ethics and the (lack of) unity of academic philosophy as a discipline. A theme running through the essays is a critical, or at least skeptical, stance towards the ‘Enlightenment project’ of explanation and rationalisation, familiar from the Frankfurt School. In Geuss, that…
Politics Recovered
Politics Recovered brings together prominent scholars to develop the idea of what it might mean to theorize politics “realistically.” By exploring the nature, distinctiveness, and prospects of realist thought, it shows how political theory can provide meaningful and compelling answers to the fundamental questions of political life.
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