Liberty after Liberalism: Civic Republicanism in a Global Age [Hardcover]

Liberty After Liberalism frees the concept of the active citizen from both the territorial confines of the nation-state and the limits imposed by republican, city-state models. Lawrence Quill advances a theory of global republicanism, one that is able to respond directly to the changing realities of political life. By adopting a publicly ironic approach to politics, Quill revives the idea of public freedom within a global context thereby providing an important supplement to contemporary theories of cosmopolitan democracy.Preface PART 1: FROM POLIS TO COSMOPOLIS Introduction: Republican Liberty and Political Space Republicanism in Context Republicanism: Relevant Debates A Dead Hypothesis? Overview of the Argument PART 2: THE TRANSFORMATION OF POLITICAL SPACE Political Space in the Early Republic The Problem of Size The Irrelevance of Republican Citizenship? Conclusion PART 3: THE STATE WE ARE (NO LONGER) IN The Liberal Political Space Protective, Developmental and Bureaucratic Space The Virtues of Being a Liberal Citizen After the Liberal State? Conclusion PART 4: REPUBLICANISM REVISITED Bringing the State Back In The Polis Within the State Re-imagining Political Community Citizen-nomads and Citizen-ships Conclusion PART 5: ON THE ANCIENT AND MODERN ORIGINS OF COSMOPOLITANISM Cosmo-political Space The Cosmopolitan Citizen A New Politics of Cosmopolitanism? Conclusion PART 6: THE CASE FOR POLITICAL EDUCATION Liberalism - Educating for Minimal Autonomy Republicanism - Educating for Citizenship Cosmopolitanism - Educating for World Citizenship Conclusion PART 7: THE WORLD TURNED UPSIDE DOWN The Anti-political Space of Empire A Different Citizen? Public Irony and Political Hope Conclusion PART 8: CONCLUSION: AFTER LIBERALISM? Notes Bibliography IndexLAWRENCE QUILL has taught at the University of California, Santa Cruz and Stanford University. He is currently Associate Director of Stanford University's Centre of Ethics, USA.