European Muslims and Liberal Citizenship
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Giovanni Vezzani LUISS-ULB
European Muslims
and
Liberal Citizenship
Reconciliation through Public Reason:
The Case of Tariq Ramadan’s Citizenship Theory
Ph.D. Thesis By
Giovanni Vezzani
Contents
Figures and Tables.
Introduction.
1Acknowledgements.
13PART I: Justificatory Evaluative Political Theory.
Chapter One: General Framework.
191.1 Preliminary Insights. 20
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1.1.A.2 Theoretical Viewpoints. 41
1.1.B Motivations: Against Essentialism. 72
1.2 Specifying the Problem and the Object of the Research. 78
1.2.A The Research Problem. 78
1.2.B Research Questions and Structure. 91
1.2.C Aims. 93
Chapter Two: Toward a Justificatory Evaluative Political Theory.
992.1 Rawls’s Political Liberalism and the Problem of Justification. 104
2.2 The Place of Comparative Ethics. What After Conjecture? 131
2.2.A Methods and Aims of Comparative Philosophy. 132
2.2.B Reasoning from Conjecture. 140
2.2.C March’s Conjecture. 164
2.3 Justificatory Evaluative Political Theory. 175
PART II: Reconstructing Public Reason.
Chapter Three: What is Public Reason?
1953.1 Kant’s Public Use of Reason. 196
3.2 Rawls’s Public Reason. 225
3.2.A The Idea of Publicity. 226
3.2.B The Idea of Public Reason. 236
3.2.B.1 The Ideal of Public Reason. 238
3.2.B.2 The Conditions of Public Reason. 258
3.2.B.3 The Structure of the Idea of Public Reason. 281
Chapter Four: Public Reason and Religion. Reinterpreting the Duty of Civility
. 3054.1 The Wide View of Public Reason and Its Critics. 317
4.1.A Rawls’s Wide View. 317
4.1.B Two Lines of Criticism. 323
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PART III: European Muslims and Public Reason.
Chapter Five: Reconciliation through Public Reason: Justificatory Evaluative
Politi-cal Theory between Modelling and Application.
4015.1 Modelling Public Reason Citizenship. 402
5.2 Public Reason Citizenship: An Appealing Normative Model for Contemporary Europe. 406
5.2.A. Between Ideal and Non-Ideal: Application of the Model to Contemporary European
Societies. 406
5.2.B Marianne Wandering Around: Islam in Europe From a Republican Perspective. 415
5.2.C Reconciliation Through Public Reason. 445
Chapter Six: Tariq Ramadan’s European Muslims and Public Reason.
4536.1 A (Contested) Biography. A European Muslim Approach. 454
6.2 [RR] Is Ramadan Committed to Political Reciprocity? 482
6.3 [CR] Is Ramadan’s Account of Public Reasoning Consistent with the Idea of Public
Reason? 510
6.4 [CiR] Does Ramadan Actually Respect Public Reason? The ‘Issue of Women.’ 534
6.5 Conclusions. 557