Justice, Rights, and Toleration: Essays for Richard Vernon - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0228019338 ISBN 13: 9780228019336

Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2024

Synopsis

The political theory of Richard Vernon has been a guiding light for students of politics for over five decades. From the situated ethics of shared citizenship to the normative character of individuals’ connections to members of other societies and generations, Vernon has cleared a distinctive course in his contributions to the many complex dimensions of political morality. Justice, Rights, and Toleration centres on the core ideas that animate Vernon’s approcach to political theory. Contributors to this volume – all former students and colleagues of Vernon – offer critical engagement with the fundamental themes threaded throughout the thinker’s work on the perennial political challenges in liberal democratic societies, including the understanding of citizenship and political membership, justice within and between nations and generations, the rights of children and parents, and the idea of toleration. Vernon articulated a clear vision of the nature of these problems as well as a nuanced approach to addressing them, one rooted in the ideas of democratic dialogue and justice. The essays in this volume are a testament to the breadth of the pressing issues on which Vernon’s work continues to advance critical insights. Justice, Rights, and Toleration provides a worthy tribute to the wide range of Richard Vernon’s interests and the inspiration still to be found in his deep yet subtle body of work in political theory.

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About the Authors

Neil Hibbert is associate professor in the Department of Political Studies at the University of Saskatchewan.

Charles Jones is associate professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Western Ontario.

Steven Lecce is professor in the Department of Political Studies at the University of Manitoba.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0228019338
• ISBN 13: 9780228019336
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 336
• Editor: Hibbert Neil, Jones Charles, Lecce Steven