262 research outputs found
Public Philosophy in a New Key
No full textThese two ambitious volumes from one of the world's most celebrated political philosophers present a new kind of political and legal theory that James Tully calls a public philosophy, and a complementary new way of thinking about active citizenship, called civic freedom. Professor Tully takes the reader step-by-step through the principal debates in political theory and the major types of political struggle today. These volumes represent a genuine landmark in political theory from the author of Strange Multiplicity, one of the most influential and distinctive commentaries on politics and the contemporary world published in recent years. This first volume of Public Philosophy in a New Key consists of a presentation and defence of a contextual approach to public philosophy and civic freedom, and then goes on to study specific struggles over recognition and distribution within states.</jats:p
Réponse à James Tully. Le défi canadien : faire droit à deux visions différentes du pays
No full textL’auteur commente dans cet article un texte de James Tully publié dans une récente livraison de GLOBE Revue internationale d’études québécoises sous le titre « Liberté et dévoilement dans les sociétés multinationales ». L’auteur situe dans son contexte historique l’impasse constitutionnelle qui perdure entre le Québec et le reste du Canada. Il évoque en particulier trois événements majeurs, soit la Loi constitutionnelle de 1982, l’échec de l’Accord du Lac Meech et l’Avis de la Cour suprême, rendu en 1998, sur la sécession du Québec. Il rappelle aussi qu’au cours des dernières décennies, par-delà des échecs pénibles, le Québec a enregistré nombre de gains dont la portée ne fut pas négligeable. À la différence de Tully, qui a surtout mis l’accent sur les conséquences positives qui pourraient découler des principes énoncés par la Cour suprême, l’auteur souligne que l’Avis, dans ses aspects proprement légaux, laisse peu de marge de manoeuvre au Québec et a déjà servi de justification pour le dépôt au Parlement du projet de loi C-20. L’impasse entre le Québec et le reste du Canada ayant sa source dans l’existence de deux visions très différentes du pays, la démarche de dévoilement et de reconnaissance préconisée par Tully pourrait, selon l’auteur, aider grandement les tenants des deux visions à mieux connaître leurs positions respectives et à mettre au point des formes de cohabitation davantage acceptables.The author examines in this article a text by fames Tully published in a recent issue of GLOBE. Revue internationale d’études québécoises under the title "Liberté et dévoilement dans les sociétés multinationales" (Revelation and recognition in multinational societies). The author situates, in this historical context, the constiuitional impass enduring between Quebec and the rest of Canada. He evokes three major events in particular: the constitutional Bill of 1982, the failure of the Meech Lake Accord and the Opinion of the Supreme Court, pronounced in 1998, on Quebec separation. He also recalls that over the course of the last few decades, beyond painful failures, Quebec has demonstrated a great number of gains whose scope was hardly negligeable. Unlike Tully, who especially emphasized the positive consequences which could ensue from the principles expressed by the Supreme Court, Ryan underlines that the Opinion, in its specifically legal aspects, leaves little room for manoeuvre in Quebec and has already served as a justification for the submitting of Bill C-20 in Parliament. The impass existing between Quebec and the rest of Canada originating with the existence of two very different visions of the country, the step defined by revelation and recognition recommended by Tully could according to the author, significantly help the supporters of the two visions to better acquaint themselves with their respective positions and to perfect forms of more acceptable cohabitation
The author as actor: a defense of Quentin Skinner
No full textIn this thesis, I defend Quentin Skinner's work against some criticisms raised by three of his interlocutors: John Keane, Kennet Minogue, and Joseph Femia. All three of these critics take issue with Skinner's author-centered approach to the historical interpretation of texts. Femia, invoking Roland Barthes 'death of the author' thesis, argues that Skinner's attempt to recover the intentions of authors is impossible. While Minogue and Keane do not dispute the possibility of recovering an author's intentions, they question the unity of such an enterprise. In order to answer Femia's criticism of Skinner, I draw an analogy between Skinner's figure of the author, and Arendt's figure of the political actor. I argue that just as it is possible for someone to know what a political actor is doing in performing a political act, it is similarly possible for an intellectual historian to understand what political acts an author was doing in writing his or her text. To refute Minogue's and Keane's claims that a Skinnerian approach to intellectual history is of no use to the political theorist, I point to three examples of how Skinner's recovery of forgotten political discourses have been applied to contemporary debates in political theory.Graduat
Other Worlds are Actual : Tully on the Imperial Roles of Modern Constitutional Democracy
No full textThe globalization of modern legal and economic practices has not ushered in a state of perpetual peace as Kantians have famously predicted. Rather, it has reinforced the perpetual crises and violence that is today\u27s realm of the political. This article examines James Tully\u27s claim that the formalization of diverse legal traditions into the modular confines of modern constitutions, as nation-states and international taw, is a project of today\u27s imperial hegemony. The global imperialism of modern constitutionalism is one that suppresses the vast multiplicity of existing legal pluralities and, consequently, fuels war and aggression, not perpetual peace. Tully\u27s important analysis of the imperial roles of modern law is understood in the broader contexts of his work on constitutionalism and contemporary debates in the disciplines of legal and political theory. The author provides support for Tully\u27s optimism that law and politics can potentially be decolonized by opening up to the worlds and legal pluralities that are constantly being re-created in the everyday practices, interactions, and relationships of people situated in their own unique localities worldwide. Numerous examples of where these other worlds can be seen are offered
A tripartite investigation of the Gold Market : pricing influences, intraday patterns and daily seasonality
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Fair Tales for a New Age (1989)
No full text1. Program [Attached][8 copies] 2. Cover Art [3 copies] 3. Two Posters [1 Attached] 4. News Release [2 copies] 5. Script of Class Announcement 6. Light Cue Sheets 7. Lighting Plot 8. Cast Distribution [2 copies] 9. Cast Breakdown [2 copies] 10. Rehearsal and Production Schedule 11. Box Office Receipts 12. Script 13. Prompt Book 14. Lars. (Nov 27, 1989). Comic Stripe: Incredible Tales of Pub Night! Pro Tem. 15. Author Unknown. (Date Unknown). Bulletin: Personals. Source Unknown. 16. Johnson, Phil. (Nov 30, 1989). Kids, adults can enjoy fairy tales. The Toronto Star. 17. Pictures [Samples attached]Archival file for the Glendon College production of Fairy Tales for a New Age, directed by Ian Tully-barr. The play was performed December 7 to 9, 1989
Democracy: Between the essentially contested concept and the agonistic practice: Connolly, Mouffe, Tully
No full textThe text considers points of view of theoreticians of the radical pluralism (democracy): Connolly (William Connolly), Mouffe (Chantal Mouffe) and Tully (James Tully) with regard to the status and the nature of concepts in the political discourse, as well as the consequences of these conceptual presumptions to understanding democracy. The three authors emphasize the essential contestability of political concepts, the paradox of liberal democracy and the need to revise standard rational consensus theories of democracy. Also, the three authors take over the specific interpretation of Vittgenstein to the direction of political theory the centre of which consists of everyday contingent practices of politics as well as dissent about their assessment. The text analyzes the extent to which this reading is compatible to Wittgenstein's position. The author defends the opinion that the essential contestability does not imply agonism and denial of the significance of rules and tries to indicate to the points of illegitimate transition from antiessentialism to unconsensus rules. Also, the text underlines the flaws of dissent conception of democracy and social integration
Are Local or International influences responsible for the pre-holiday behaviour of Irish equities?
No full textThe preholiday behaviour of equity price and return indices on the Irish Stock Exchange do nor display consistent positive pre-holiday returns. This is contrary to the majority of studies on this area, and the result is found across a number of sectoral indices. The analysis also indicates that these curious results are driven by local, as opposed to international, influences Classification-Ireland, Non-Parametric, Stock Returns
Seasonality, Risk And Return In Daily COMEX Gold And Silver Data 1982-2002
No full textThis paper examines the conditional and unconditional mean returns and variance of returns of daily gold and silver contracts over the 1982-2002 period. Despite the importance of these metals as industrial and investment products, they have received scant attention in recent years. In particular, we focus on the issue of whether there exists detectable daily seasonality in these moments. Using COMEX cash and futures data we find that under both parametric and nonparametric analysis the evidence is weak in the issue of daily seasonality for the mean but strong for the variance. There appears to be a negative Monday effect in both gold and silver, across cash and futures markets. When the mean and variance are analysed simultaneously in a GARCH framework we note that a leveraged GARCH model provides a best fit for the data and that in framework the Monday seasonal does not disappear, indicating that it is not a risk-related artefact, the Monday dummy in the variance equations being significant also. No evidence of an ARCH-in-Mean effect is found. Classification-Seasonality GARCH Models, Gold, and Silver
The Evolving Relationship between Gold and Silver 1978-2002: Evidence from a Dynamic Cointegration Analysis: A Note Crisis of 1997-1998
No full textTraditionally, analysts and traders have expected to see a stable, reasonably predictable, relationship between the price (and thus the rate of return) of gold and silver. Both these metals retain important industrial, commercial and investment uses. Recent research has cast some doubt on this assumption. We find that while over the 1990’s the relationship may well have been more unstable, when a longer timeframe is examined the relationship is stable but weakening. This we hypothesise is due to the changing nature of the demand patterns for gold versus silver. Classification-Cointegration, Gold
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