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Philosophy and politics

PPP: Jeremy Waldron (NYU): How Law Protects Dignity. Mark Graber (Maryland): Constitutional Democracy, Human Dignity, and Entrenched Evil. Jacob T. Levy (McGill): The Right to Be Dignified, or the Dignity of Liberty. Antonio Argandona (Navarra): The Common Good. Davide Cadeddu (Milan): Philosophy and Politics: The Dialogue between Campagnolo and Bobbio. Eric Allen Engle (Bremen): Karl Marx’s Intellectual Roots in John Locke. Funda Gencoglu-Onbasi (Baskent): Democracy, Pluralism and the Idea of Public Reason: Rawls and Habermas in Comparative Perspective. From The Art of Theory, an interview with Quentin Skinner on meaning and method (and part 2). Conservative, reactionary or moderate revolutionist? Carolina Armenteros on Joseph de Maistre in the light of history. A review of The Closed Commercial State: Perpetual Peace and Commercial Society from Rousseau to Fichte by Isaac Nakhimovsky. A review of Revolution and the Republic: A History of Political Thought in France since the Eighteenth Century by Jeremy Jennings. An interview with Fabienne Peter, author of Democratic Legitimacy. The de-politicization of politics: The challenge for a liberal democracy is to remain as such, argues Charles Taylor. Here is The Immanent Frame's complete blog series on Political Theology by Paul W. Kahn. Is there a difference between barroom conversation and philosophy, and what does Lincoln's Gettysburg Address tell us about social justice? An interview with Joshua Cohen. An interview with Robert Audi, author of Democratic Authority and the Separation of Church and State. From the International Encyclopedia of Ethics, here are the entries on capabilities, citizenship, and Isaiah Berlin and global justice and politics by Thom Brooks and on dirty hands by Charles Blattberg. An interview with George Kateb, pathologist of politics.