1. Noel O'Sullivan (University of Hull), ‘Democracy, equality and the public realm: disagreement without reconciliation’.
2. M. Festenstein (University of Sheffield), ‘Trust, multiculturalism and the public realm’.
3. Elizabeth Frazer (Fellow, New College, Oxford), ‘Hannah Arendt on ethics, politics and the public realm’.
4. Nick Rengger (St. Andrews), ‘On the idea of a global public realm’.
5. Noel O’Sullivan (University of Hull), ‘The public realm, civil association and the concept of legitimacy in contemporary political thought’.
6. Kam Shapiro (Illinois State University), ‘Staging a public: Carl Schmitt on the public realm’.
7. Andrea Baumeister (Stirling University), ‘Gender, feminism and the public realm’.
8. Terry Nardin (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), ‘Globalization and the public realm’.
9. Bhikhu Parekh (University of Westminster), ‘The concept of the public realm in non-Western political thought’.
10. Charles Turner (University of Warwick), ‘The concept of the public realm in the thought of Jürgen Habermas’.
Biography
Noel O’Sullivan is Research Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Hull. His most recent book is European Political Thought since 1945 (Palgrave, 2004). Other books include the monographs The Problem of Political Obligation (1987), Conservatism (Everyman, 1976), Fascism (Everyman, 1983), and The Philosophy of Santayana (Claridge Press, 1992). He is editor of the series Oakeshott Studies for the Imprint Academic Press. His work has been translated into Chinese, Italian, Dutch, Czech and Spanish.
