Professor Glen Newey is a political philosopher who was Professor in the School of Politics, International Relations & Philosophy at Keele University

Keele University

Keele University is a campus university near Newcastle-under-Lyme in Staffordshire, England. Founded in 1949 as an experimental college dedicated to a broad curriculum and interdisciplinary study, Keele is most notable for pioneering the dual honours degree in Britain...

, Staffordshire

Staffordshire

Staffordshire is a landlocked county in the West Midlands region of England. For Eurostat purposes, the county is a NUTS 3 region and is one of four counties or unitary districts that comprise the "Shropshire and Staffordshire" NUTS 2 region. Part of the National Forest lies within its borders...

, England

England

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. From 2012 he is Professor of Political Theory at the Université Libre de Bruxelles

Université Libre de Bruxelles

The Université libre de Bruxelles is a French-speaking university in Brussels, Belgium. It has 21,000 students, 29% of whom come from abroad, and an equally cosmopolitan staff.-Name:...

, Belgium. He contributes regularly to the London Review of Books

London Review of Books

The London Review of Books is a fortnightly British magazine of literary and intellectual essays.-History:The LRB was founded in 1979, during the year-long lock-out at The Times, by publisher A...

blog and print edition. His articles and publications are often very informal in vein; in one article entitled As Useful as a String Condom Newey wittily slates the British Royal Family

British Royal Family

The British Royal Family is the group of close relatives of the monarch of the United Kingdom. The term is also commonly applied to the same group of people as the relations of the monarch in her or his role as sovereign of any of the other Commonwealth realms, thus sometimes at variance with...

 as being of no use anymore in modern Britain. His journalist

Journalist

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ic output also includes film

Film

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 and theatre

Theatre

Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...

 review

Review

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s, as well as review essays on political and moral philosophy, and cultural criticism. He is also a strong defender of academic freedom

Academic freedom

Academic freedom is the belief that the freedom of inquiry by students and faculty members is essential to the mission of the academy, and that scholars should have freedom to teach or communicate ideas or facts without being targeted for repression, job loss, or imprisonment.Academic freedom is a...

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Background

Glen Newey was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge

Jesus College, Cambridge

Jesus College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England.The College was founded in 1496 on the site of a Benedictine nunnery by John Alcock, then Bishop of Ely...

 where he received a degree in History and Philosophy. He completed Master of Arts

Master of Arts (postgraduate)

A Master of Arts from the Latin Magister Artium, is a type of Master's degree awarded by universities in many countries. The M.A. is usually contrasted with the M.S. or M.Sc. degrees...

 and Doctor of Philosophy

Doctor of Philosophy

Doctor of Philosophy, abbreviated as Ph.D., PhD, D.Phil., or DPhil , in English-speaking countries, is a postgraduate academic degree awarded by universities...

 degrees at the University of York

University of York

The University of York , is an academic institution located in the city of York, England. Established in 1963, the campus university has expanded to more than thirty departments and centres, covering a wide range of subjects...

, where his doctoral supervisor was Professor John Horton. Before working at Keele University

Keele University

Keele University is a campus university near Newcastle-under-Lyme in Staffordshire, England. Founded in 1949 as an experimental college dedicated to a broad curriculum and interdisciplinary study, Keele is most notable for pioneering the dual honours degree in Britain...

, Newey had taught at the University of Sussex

University of Sussex

The University of Sussex is an English public research university situated next to the East Sussex village of Falmer, within the city of Brighton and Hove. The University received its Royal Charter in August 1961....

, University of Strathclyde

University of Strathclyde

The University of Strathclyde , Glasgow, Scotland, is Glasgow's second university by age, founded in 1796, and receiving its Royal Charter in 1964 as the UK's first technological university...

, University of York

University of York

The University of York , is an academic institution located in the city of York, England. Established in 1963, the campus university has expanded to more than thirty departments and centres, covering a wide range of subjects...

, Birkbeck College

Birkbeck, University of London

Birkbeck, University of London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and a constituent college of the federal University of London. It offers many Master's and Bachelor's degree programmes that can be studied either part-time or full-time, though nearly all teaching is...

 and the University of Oxford

University of Oxford

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Area of Specialisation

Glen Newey's main research interests are in political philosophy

Political philosophy

Political philosophy is the study of such topics as liberty, justice, property, rights, law, and the enforcement of a legal code by authority: what they are, why they are needed, what, if anything, makes a government legitimate, what rights and freedoms it should protect and why, what form it...

. His work is on toleration, the nature of politics, political morality, including the ethics of deception in public life, security, freedom of speech, and the political theory of Thomas Hobbes. He argues that modern liberalism, as defended by John Rawls and his followers, sidelines politics in favour of a moralised account of public life. Presently, his work concentrates upon the relationship between security and other political concepts, including mostly liberty

Liberty

Liberty is a moral and political principle, or Right, that identifies the condition in which human beings are able to govern themselves, to behave according to their own free will, and take responsibility for their actions...

 and toleration

Toleration

Toleration is "the practice of deliberately allowing or permitting a thing of which one disapproves. One can meaningfully speak of tolerating, ie of allowing or permitting, only if one is in a position to disallow”. It has also been defined as "to bear or endure" or "to nourish, sustain or preserve"...

. Political deception is another area of interest for Newey. Between 2008 and 2010 he was situated in Helsinki Collegium, carrying out research on these topics.

Other areas of interest include toleration

Toleration

Toleration is "the practice of deliberately allowing or permitting a thing of which one disapproves. One can meaningfully speak of tolerating, ie of allowing or permitting, only if one is in a position to disallow”. It has also been defined as "to bear or endure" or "to nourish, sustain or preserve"...

, Hobbes's political philosophy and the philosophical basis that political systems are built upon. His academic and journalistic output examines liberal views and develops an alternative to them. Newey is a prominent member of the "Realist" school of political philosophers which also includes such figures as Bernard Williams

Bernard Williams

Sir Bernard Arthur Owen Williams was an English moral philosopher, described by The Times as the most brilliant and most important British moral philosopher of his time. His publications include Problems of the Self , Moral Luck , Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy , and Truth and Truthfulness...

, John N. Gray, and Raymond Geuss

Raymond Geuss

Raymond Geuss , a Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge, is a political philosopher and scholar of 19th and 20th century European philosophy.-Life:...

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Publications

Books

• 2008 Hobbes and Leviathan (London: Routledge (Philosophy Guidebooks series))
• 2007 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)

Journal editions

• 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”

Articles

• 2011 “Toleration as Sedition”, Critical Review of International Social & Political Philosophy 14:3, 363-384
• 2011 “Political Toleration: a reply to Jones”, British Journal of Political Science 41: 1, 223-227
• 2011 “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, 407-425
• 2011 “Liberty v. Liberty; Security v. Security”, forthcoming in Charles Husband (ed.), Security and Social Cohesion
• 2011 “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 Philosophy
• 2010 “Democracy and Resentment,” Redescriptions: Yearbook of Conceptual Thought & Political History, 14, 157-178
• 2010 “Two Dogmas of Liberalism”, European Journal of Political Theory 9: 4, 449-65
• 2010 “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/109
• 2009 “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), pp360–391
• 2007 Editor’s Introduction, Res Publica 13 (i) (special issue on “Freedom of Expression: counting the costs”), pp1–7
• 2006 “Gray’s Blues: Pessimism as a Political Project” in CRISPP 9 (ii), repr. in The Political Theory of John Gray
• 2006 Editors’ Introduction (co-authored with John Horton) in CRISPP 9 (ii); repr. in The Political Theory of John Gray
• 2004 “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, pp493–522
• 2003 “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), pp75–97
• 2001 “Philosophy, Politics, and Contestability”, Journal of Political Ideologies 6 (iii), pp245–261
• 1999 “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/158/148
• 1997 “Metaphysics Postponed: Liberalism, Pluralism and Neutrality”, Political Studies 45 (ii), pp296–311
• 1997 “Political Lying: A Defense”, Public Affairs Quarterly 11 (ii), pp93–116
• 1997 “Against Thin-Property Reductivism: toleration as supererogatory”, Journal of Value Inquiry 31, pp231–249
• 1996 “Reasons Beyond Reason? ‘Political Obligation’ Reconsidered”, Philosophical Papers 25 (i), pp21–46
• 1996 “Recent Political Philosophy”, Political Studies Association Conference Proceedings (1996), pp1310–1321
• 1996 “Philosophical Aromatherapy”, Res Publica, 2 (ii), pp215–221
• 1992 “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 Supplement

Broadcasting

BBC Radio 4 (The World Tonight); BBC Radio 3 (Sunday Feature); Fox Television News, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (The Current); radio news broadcasts in Austria, Australia, South Africa, Brazil, Ireland, etc.