84:1 January 2001
Civic Republicanism as Political Philosophy

Advisory Editor: Philip Pettit, ANU/Columbia

Republican political theory has been identified by a number of recent historical and philosophical commentators as a political philosophy with distinctive themes and a distinctive stance. In particular, it has been presented as an alternative both to liberalism, broadly conceived, and to the communitarianism that many have represented as the antonym of liberalism. This issue of The Monist will be devoted to the exploration of this approach to political philosophy and submissions that seek to characterise, develop or criticise republicanism are welcome. Authors are particularly invited to focus on aspects of the republican approach that make for a contrast with any of the various forms of liberalism and communitarianism.

Table of Contents:

James Bohman 

Cosmopolitan Republicanism

Alain Boyer 

On the Modern Relevance of Old Republicanism

Geoffrey Brennan and Alan Hamlin 

Republican Liberty and Resilience

Vivienne Brown 

Self-government: the master trope of republican liberty

John Ferejohn 

Pettit's Republic

Frank Lovett 

Domination: A Preliminary Analysis

Gurpreet Singh Rattan 

Prospects for a Contemporary Republicanism

Maurizio Viroli 

The Republican Renaissance and its Limits