Strange Multiplicity

IntheinauguralsetofSeeleyLectures,thedistinguishedpoliticalphilosopherJamesTullyaddressesthedemandsforculturalrecognitionthatconstitutethemajorconflictsoftoday:supranationalassociations,nationalismandfederalism,linguisticandethnicminorities,feminism,multiculturalismandaboriginalselfgovernment.Neithermodernnorpost-modernconstitutionalismcanadjudicatesuchclaimsjustly.However,bysurveying400yearsofconstitutionalpractice,withspecialattentiontotheAmericanaboriginalpeoples,Tullydevelopsanewphilosophyofconstitutionalismbasedondialoguesofconciliationwhich,heargues,havethecapacitytomediatecontemporaryconflictsandbringpeacetothetwenty-firstcentury.StrangeMultiplicitybringsprofoundhistorical,criticalandphilosophicalperspectivestoourmostpressingcontemporaryconflicts,andprovidesanauthoritativeguidetoconstitutionalpossibilitiesinamulticulturalage.