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277The culture(s) of the republic: Nationalism and multiculturalism in French republican thoughtPolitical Theory 29 (5): 716-735. 2001.
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154Critical republicanism: the Hijab controversy and political philosophyOxford University Press. 2008.The first comprehensive analysis of the philosophical issues raised by the hijab controversy in France, this book also conducts a dialogue between contemporary Anglo-American and French political theory and defends a progressive republican solution to so-called multicultural conflicts in contemporary societies. It critically assesses the official republican philosophy of laïcité which purported to justify the 2004 ban on religious signs in schools. Laïcité is shown to encompass a comprehensive t…Read more
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124Female Autonomy, Education and the HijabCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 9 (3): 351-377. 2006.
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119Secular philosophy and muslim headscarves in schoolsJournal of Political Philosophy 13 (3). 2005.
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103Political Liberalism and Religion: On Separation and EstablishmentJournal of Political Philosophy 21 (1): 67-86. 2011.
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78Republicanism and Global JusticeEuropean Journal of Political Theory 9 (1): 48-69. 2010.The republican tradition seems to have a blind spot about global justice. It has had little to say about pressing international issues such as world poverty or global inequalities. According to the old, if apocryphal, adage: extra rempublicam nulla justitia. Some may doubt that distributive justice is the primary virtue of republican institutions; and at any rate most would agree that republican values have traditionally been realized in the polis not in the cosmopolis. The article sketches a re…Read more
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77Why Tolerate Conscience?Criminal Law and Philosophy 1-21. forthcoming.In Why Tolerate Religion?, Brian Leiter argues against the special legal status of religion, claiming that religion should not be the only ground for exemptions to the law and that this form of protection should be, in principle, available for the claims of secular conscience as well. However, in the last chapter of his book, he objects to a universal regime of exemptions for both religious and secular claims of conscience, highlighting the practical and moral flaws associated with it. We believ…Read more
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76Republicanism and Political Theory (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 2008.Republicanism and Political Theory is the first book to offer a comprehensive and critical survey of republican political theory. Critically assesses its historical credentials, conceptual coherence, and normative proposals Brings together original contributions from leading international scholars in an interactive way Provides the reader with valuable insight into new debates taking place in republican political theory
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56Equal liberty, nonestablishment, and religious freedomLegal Theory 20 (1): 52-77. 2014.Egalitarian theories of religious freedom deny that religion is entitled to special treatment in law above and beyond that granted to comparable beliefs and practices. The most detailed and influential defense of such an approach is Christopher Eisgruber and Lawrence Sager's Religious Freedom and the Constitution (2007). In this essay I develop, elucidate, and show the limits of the strategy adopted by Eisgruber and Sager. The strategy requires that religion be analogized with other beliefs and …Read more
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42Religion in the Law: The Disaggregation ApproachLaw and Philosophy 34 (6): 581-600. 2015.Should religion be singled out in the law? This Article evaluates two influential theories of freedom of religion in political theory, before introducing an alternative one. The first approach, the Substitution approach, argues that freedom of religion can be adequately expressed by a substitute category: typically, freedom of conscience. The second, the Proxy approach, argues that the notion of religion should be upheld in the law, albeit as a proxy for a range of different goods. After showing…Read more
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39Why Tolerate Conscience?Criminal Law and Philosophy 10 (3): 493-514. 2016.In Why Tolerate Religion?, Brian Leiter argues against the special legal status of religion, claiming that religion should not be the only ground for exemptions to the law and that this form of protection should be, in principle, available for the claims of secular conscience as well. However, in the last chapter of his book, he objects to a universal regime of exemptions for both religious and secular claims of conscience, highlighting the practical and moral flaws associated with it. We believ…Read more
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34Three cheers for liberal modestyCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 23 (1): 119-135. 2020.
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30Reply to Quong, Patten, Miller and WaldronCriminal Law and Philosophy 15 (1): 105-118. 2020.This is a reply to four critics of my book Liberalism’s Religion: Jonathan Quong, Alan Patten, David Miller and Jeremy Waldron, whose essays have been published in a Special Issue of Criminal Law and Philosophy.
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28Intelligibility, Moral Loss and InjusticeJournal of Applied Philosophy 36 (5): 727-736. 2019.In Liberalism's Religion, I analyse the specific conception of religion that liberalism relies upon. I argue that the concept of religion should be disaggregated into its normatively salient features. When deciding whether to avert undue impingements on religious observances, or to avoid any untoward support of such observances, liberal states should not deal with ‘religion’ as such but, rather, with relevant dimensions of religious phenomena. States should avoid religious entanglement when ‘rel…Read more
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28Liberalism’s Religion (edited book)Harvard University Press. 2017.Liberal societies conventionally treat religion as unique under the law, requiring both special protection and special containment. But recently this idea that religion requires a legal exception has come under fire from those who argue that religion is no different from any other conception of the good, and the state should treat all such conceptions according to principles of neutrality and equal liberty. Cécile Laborde agrees with much of this liberal egalitarian critique, but she argues that…Read more
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27Syndicalism against the state: Libertarianism in the works of edouard berth and his contemporariesThe European Legacy 3 (5): 66-85. 1998.No abstract
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23Three theses about political theology: some comments on Seyla Benhabib’s ‘return of political theology’Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 17 (6): 689-696. 2014.
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23Pluralism, syndicalism and corporatism: Léon Duguit and the crisis of the stateHistory of European Ideas 22 (3): 227-244. 1996.
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21Pluralism and the personality of the state (review)History of European Ideas 23 (2-4): 141-144. 1997.
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21The Reception of John Rawls in EuropeEuropean Journal of Political Theory 1 (2): 133-146. 2002.The study of the reception of Rawls in Europe provides some insights into the persistence or erosion of national and European traditions of political thought since the 1970s. It notably allows us to test the relevance of the divide between `analytical' and `Continental' philosophy, and to measure the impact on political thought of the `liberal' turn of the 1980s. Reception should be seen not a process of absorption but as one of dialogue. The reception of Rawls can be approached along six axes o…Read more
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21Three cheers for liberal modestyCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 23 (1): 119-135. 2020.
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174. Disaggregating Religion In Nonestablishment Of Religion: Defending Minimal SecularismIn Liberalism’s Religion, Harvard University Press. pp. 113-159. 2017.
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17Justice, gender and the politics of multiculturalismContemporary Political Theory 8 (3): 368-370. 2009.
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152. Liberal Egalitarianism And The Exemptions PuzzleIn Liberalism’s Religion, Harvard University Press. pp. 42-68. 2017.
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15Can Religious Establishment be Liberal Enough? 1Studies in Christian Ethics 33 (2): 215-223. 2020.In this article, I aim to do two things. I offer an assessment of religious establishment according to liberal standards. I then ask how this analysis bears on Nigel Biggar’s defence of Anglican establishment. I argue that only some features of Anglican establishment are compatible with the liberal standard of what I call minimal secularism.
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14Conversation avec Cécile LabordeThéoRèmes 15. 2019.1. La philosophie politique contemporaine : en français et en anglais François Boucher (FB) : Votre travail semble habité par une volonté d'établir des ponts entre la pensée politique française et anglo-américaine. Cette volonté est déjà visible dans votre ouvrage de 2000, Pluralist Thought and the State in Britain and France (1900-1925), qui compare les penseurs pluralistes du début XXe en France et en Angleterre. Elle est également au cœur de Critical Republicanism, The Hijab Controversy an...
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14Protecting Freedom of Religion in the Secular AgeIn Jacob Levy, Jocelyn Maclure & Daniel Weinstock (eds.), Interpreting Modernity: Essays on the Work of Charles Taylor, Mcgill-queen's University Press. pp. 197-206. 2020.
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136. Disaggregating Religion In Freedom Of Religion: Individual Exemptions And Liberal JusticeIn Liberalism’s Religion, Harvard University Press. pp. 197-238. 2017.
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