Glen Newey foi educado no Victoria College, Jersey e Jesus College, Cambridge, onde estudou história sob a supervisão de Richard Tuck. Depois de se formar, ele trabalhou por vários anos como professor em Jersey. Ele concluiu o mestrado em artes e doutorado em filosofia na Universidade de York, onde seu supervisor de doutorado era o professor John Horton. Antes de trabalhar na Universidade Keele, Newey havia ensinado na Universidade de Sussex, na Universidade de Strathclyde, na Universidade de York, no Birkbeck College e na Universidade de Oxford. Ele também pensou na Université Libre de Bruxelles.
Os principais interesses de pesquisa de Glen Newey eram em filosofia política. Seu trabalho se concentra na tolerância, na natureza da política, na moralidade política, incluindo a ética do engano na vida pública, segurança, liberdade de expressão e a teoria política de Thomas Hobbes. Ele argumenta que o liberalismo moderno, como defendido por John Rawls e seus seguidores, de fora a política em favor de um relato moralizado da vida pública. Ultimamente, seu trabalho concentrou -se na relação entre segurança e outros conceitos políticos, bem como a natureza da política e a relação entre liberdade e justiça. O engano político foi outra área de interesse. Entre 2008 e 2010, ele foi associado de pesquisa no Helsinki Collegium.
Outras áreas de interesse incluem o conceito de segurança, liberdade de expressão, filosofia política de Hobbes e a base filosófica de que os sistemas políticos são construídos. Sua produção acadêmica e jornalística examinou visões liberais e desenvolve uma alternativa a elas.
Newey morreu em 30 de setembro de 2017 em um acidente de barco em Roterdã, Holanda, envolvendo várias explosões de gás.
Livros
2014 Hobbes and Leviathan (expanded second edition (London: Routledge))2013 Toleration in Political Conflict (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)2008 Hobbes and Leviathan (London: Routledge (Philosophy Guidebooks series))2007 (ed.) Freedom of Expression: counting the costs (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press)2006 The Political Theory of John Gray (London: Routledge) (ed. with John Horton)2001 After Politics: the Rejection of Politics in Contemporary Liberal Philosophy (London: Palgrave)1999 Virtue, Reason, and the Politics of Toleration: the place of toleration in ethical and political philosophy (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press)Edições de periódicos
2007 Res Publica 13 (i), special issue on "Freedom of Expression: counting the costs", (March 2007)2006 Critical Review of International Social & Political Philosophy 9 (ii) (CRISPP), special issue on "The Political Theory of John Gray"Artigos
2011"Toleration as Sedition", Critical Review of International Social & Political Philosophy 14:3, 363–3842011"Political Toleration: a reply to Jones", British Journal of Political Science 41: 1, 223–2272011"Hobbes and Liberal Moralism in International Theory," in Raia Prokhovnik & Gabriela Slomp (eds.), International Political Theory After Hobbes (London: Palgrave)2011"How Not To Tolerate Religion", in Monica Mookherjee (ed.), Democracy, Religious Pluralism and the Liberal Dilemma of Accommodation (Dordrecht: Springer)2011"Free Speech and Bad Speech: Nike v. Kasky and the Right to Lie", in Tim Heysse & Barbara Segaert (eds.), Bijdragen: International Journal in Philosophy and Theology 71: 4, 407–4252011"Liberty v. Liberty; Security v. Security", forthcoming in Charles Husband (ed.), Security and Social Cohesion2011"The Liberal Theory of Security", forthcoming in Melissa Lane & Glyn Morgan (eds.), Philosophical Perspectives on Security (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)2011"Just Politics", forthcoming in Enzo Rossi & Emanuela Ceva (eds.), Beiheft on realism and moralism in political theory, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy2010"Democracy and Resentment," Redescriptions: Yearbook of Conceptual Thought & Political History, 14, 157–1782010"Two Dogmas of Liberalism", European Journal of Political Theory 9: 4, 449–652010"Not a Woman Hater: Hobbes on Women and the Family," in Yoke-Lian Lee (ed.), The Politics of Gender: a Survey (London: Routledge)2009"Denial Denied: Freedom of Expression", Amsterdam Law Forum 2: 2, 63–70; online at http://ojs.ubvu.vu.nl/alf/article/view/1092009"The People vs. the Truth: Democratic Illusions", in Ronald Tinnevelt & Raf Geenens (eds.), Does Truth Matter? Democracy and Public Space (New York: Springer)2008 "Rawlsian Liberalism at the Limits of Intolerance", in S.P.Young (ed.), The Legacy of John Rawls (Aldershot: Ashgate)2008 "The People vs. the Truth: democratic illusions", in K.van Hemelryck (ed.), Truth in Public Space (New York: Springer)2008 "Toleration as Sedition", in M.Matravers & S.Mendus (eds.), Toleration Reconsidered (London: Routledge)2008 "Toleration, Politics, and the Role of Murality", in J.Waldron & M.Williams (eds.), NOMOS XLVIII: Toleration and its Limits (New York: New York University Press), pp360–3912007 Editor’s Introduction, Res Publica 13 (i) (special issue on "Freedom of Expression: counting the costs"), pp1–72006 "Gray’s Blues: Pessimism as a Political Project" in CRISPP 9 (ii), repr. in The Political Theory of John Gray2006 Editors’ Introduction (co-authored with John Horton) in CRISPP 9 (ii); repr. in The Political Theory of John Gray2004 "Reason, Value, and Pluralism" in Feng Ping (ed.), Axiology in the Twenty-First Century (Guangzhou: Zhangyong University Press)2003 "Value Pluralism in Contemporary Liberalism", in G.Smith (ed.), Liberalism: Critical Assessments (London: Routledge 2003); repr. from Dialogue: the Canadian Philosophical Review 37, pp493–5222003 "Is Democratic Toleration a Rubber Duck?" in D.Castiglione & C.McKinnon (eds.), Toleration, Neutrality and Democracy (Dordrecht: Kluwer); repr. from Castiglione & McKinnon (eds.), Res Publica 7 (iii), pp315–336 (special issue on "Toleration: Moral and Political")2002 "Discourse Rights and the Drumcree Marches: a Reply to O’Neill", British Journal of Politics and International Relations 4 (i), pp75–972001 "Philosophy, Politics, and Contestability", Journal of Political Ideologies 6 (iii), pp245–2611999 "Tolerance as a Virtue", in S.Mendus & J.Horton (eds.), Toleration: Identity and Difference (London: Macmillan)1998 "Albino Sea-Cucumber", London Review of Books, 5 February 1998, pp6–7. See David Wallace "The Otherness of Castoriadis", Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, 3 (Spring 2000), pp 110–115; see p114n3. http://pi.library.yorku.ca/ojs/index.php/topia/article/viewFile/158/1481997 "Metaphysics Postponed: Liberalism, Pluralism and Neutrality", Political Studies 45 (ii), pp296–3111997 "Political Lying: A Defense", Public Affairs Quarterly 11 (ii), pp93–1161997 "Against Thin-Property Reductivism: toleration as supererogatory", Journal of Value Inquiry 31, pp231–2491996 "Reasons Beyond Reason? ‘Political Obligation’ Reconsidered", Philosophical Papers 25 (i), pp21–461996 "Recent Political Philosophy", Political Studies Association Conference Proceedings (1996), pp1310–13211996 "Philosophical Aromatherapy", Res Publica, 2 (ii), pp215–2211992 "Fatwa and Fiction: censorship and toleration" in J.Horton & P.Nicholson (eds.), Toleration: Identity and Difference (Aldershot: Avebury); reprinted in J.Horton (ed.), Liberalism, Multiculturalism and Toleration (London: Macmillan 1993)1990 "Reason, Morality and Politics", Morrell Discussion Paper in Political Theory 43 (York: Morrell Studies in Toleration)Commentary and review articles for: Times Literary Supplement; London Review of Books; the Independent; Times Higher Education SupplementTransmissão
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