From Liberal Values to Democratic Transition
Essays in Honor of János Kis
Edited by Ronald Dworkin, Chair of the Editorial
Board is Professor of Philosophy and Frank Henry Sommer
Professor of Law, New York University School of Law.
Editorial board: Viktor Bõhm, Director,
Humanities Center; Nenad Dimitrijevic, Head,
Department of Political Science; Yehuda Elkana,
President and Rector; Ferenc Huoranszki, Head,
Department of Philosophy; Tamás Meszerics,
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science,
all five of them at the Central European University,
Budapest.
The book contains twelve essays by Stephen Holmes,
Frances M. Kamm, Mária Ludassy, Steven Lukes,
Gyorgy Markus, András Sajó, Gáspár
Miklós Tamás, Andrew Arato, Timothy Garton
Ash, Béla Greskovits, Will Kymlicka, and Aleksander
Smolar. The studies explore a wide scope of subjects
that belong to disciplines ranging from moral philosophy,
through theory of human rights, democratic transition,
constitutionalism, to political economy. The common
denominator of the studies collected is their reference
to the scholarly output of János Kis, in honor
of his sixtieth birthday.
János Kis is a distinguished political philosopher
who, after many years spent as a dissident under the
Communist regime, emerged as an important political
figure in Hungary's transition to democracy. Currently
he is University Professor of Philosophy at Central
European University, Budapest.
Contents
List of Tables and
Figures; Introduction; Part I.
Liberal Values Stephen Holmes: Judicial Independence
as Ambiguous Reality and Insidious Illusion; Frances
M. Kamm: Why a Rational Agent Need Not Intend the Means
to His End; Mária Ludassy: Language and order.
De Bonald's Theory of Language as a Paradigm of Traditionalist
Political Philosophy?; Steven Lukes: Invasion of the
Market; György Márkus: The Hope to Be Free:
Freedom as Fact, Postulate and Regulative Idea in Kant;
András Sajó: Concepts of Neutrality and
the State; Gáspár Miklós Tamás:
On Depth and Greatness; Part II. Democratic Transition
Andrew Arato: The Occupation of Iraq and the Difficult
Transition from Dictatorship; Timothy Garton Ash: "1989"
- For János Kis; Béla Greskovits: Beyond
Transition: The Variety of Post-Socialist Development;
Will Kymlicka: Nationalism, Transnationalism and Postnationalism;
Aleksander Smolar: In Search for Hope and Paradigm;
Bibliography of János Kis; Index
2004, 308 pages
ISBN 978-963-9241-77-0 cloth $49.95 / €42.95 /
£33.00
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