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Agents of change: political philosophy in practice

Equality. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Estlund, D. (2020) Utopophobia: On the Limits (If Any) of Political Philosophy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Sen, A. (2011) The Idea of ... which political philosophy is a form of practical reason concerned primarily with justice as a practical good for society to achieve. The last part tackles the issue of non-compliance with duties of

Heidegger in ruins: between philosophy and ideology

philosophy. Taking to task scholars who ignore or, perhaps worse, handwave away Heidegger's well-documented antisemitism (p. 59) and his consistent commitment to the National Socialist project (p. 31), Wolin ... paints a detailed picture of how deeply embedded Heidegger was within the politics of the Third Reich. Wolin explores not only his sympathies, but his persistent attempts to guide the political machinery

The liberalism of care: community, philosophy, and ethics

to the post-war dominance of a minimalist strand of liberal political philosophy. Rejecting thick visions of collective life, this perspective sees politics as a ‘limited partnership between autonomous ... Netherlands 1 Rebecca Aili Ploof - Accepted: 18 June 2023 © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited 2023 Liberal democracy faces a crisis of care. Once a mainstay of political

Deweyan experimentalism and the problem of method in political philosophy

Deweyan Experimentalism and the Problem of Method in Political Philosophy, is to extract ideals from the current milieu and reconstruct them to address problems facing the community here and now. Forstenzer ... Forstenzer Routledge 0 New York 0 ISBN: 0 0 Nicholas Tampio Fordham University , Bronx, NY 10458 , USA What kind of methods should political theorists use? Political theorists could do ideal theory in the

Teaching political theory: A pluralistic approach

University , Stanford, CA 94305 , USA Political theory has at least two characteristics. One, it is marked by its inbetweenness-between philosophy and history, humanities and social science, normative ... pursuits and empirical concerns, etc. Two, it has a civic and pedagogical dimension. Political theorists read, interpret, and critique texts with the purpose of teaching, both in the limited sense of

The prehistory of private property: Implications for modern political theory

Widerquist and Grant McCall's sequel to their first co-authored book, Prehistoric Myths in Modern Political Philosophy, both published with Edinburgh University Press. Although the authors outline the ... that have, to a surprising extent, been normalized in modern and contemporary political thought. The interdisciplinary bridging of political theory and anthropology allows the authors to successfully

Left populism, commons and radical democracy: counter-hegemonic alliances in our times

conflicts between them and by explaining the political significance of their conjugation. Subsequently, discussion builds an empirical argument for the real possibility and the democratic promises of such a ... egalitarian, grassroots and non-hierarchical philosophy of the common(s), as the following discussion will suggest. The commons and populism: conceptual notes and political logics Given the slippery and

The political theory of global supply chains

within political philosophy to exclusively focus on Rawls’s Kantian inheritance and his emphasis on autonomy and absolute self-determination. This allows him to underscore the importance of context and ... provoke genuinely new thinking. Du Bois, whom McKean also enlists to help craft his argument, offers another critical vantage point on the book’s questionable investment in Rawlsian political philosophy

Transnational cosmopolitanism: Kant, Du Bois, and justice as a political craft

contributions to cosmopolitanism in political theory and philosophy, international studies, and comparative political thought, not to mention in Kant and Du Bois Studies. A welcome tour de force, this book ... normative frameworks, leaving the latter untouched. In a theoretical move building on the critique of what Charles W. Mills named the ''white racial framing of political philosophy'' (Mills, 2017, p. 194

Hegel’s political philosophy: On the normative significance of method and system

, Hegel’s Political Philosophy, is motivated by an apparent debate between those who base their interpretation of Hegel’s political thought on his broader system and method and those who do not. In the ... logical system and his political thought, they largely agree on the necessity of that relationship for an understanding of Hegel’s practical philosophy. Several essays explicate a central logical concept in

Pax Gandhiana: The political philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi

York, 2016, xii , USA 1 220 pp. , ISBN: 978-0190491451 2 John Randolph LeBlanc University of Texas at Tyler , Tyler, TX 75799 , USA If Gandhi's political philosophy were realized, argues noted Gandhi ... . Gandhi's political philosophy integrates the ethical, the moral, the aesthetic, and the spiritual into a political way of being that is not only best suited for India's transition from colony to independent

Plato and the mythic tradition in political thought

philosophy are complex and elusive. On the one hand, as David Lay Williams notes in his contribution to this exchange, there is a tradition of political thought that follows the same trajectory of our ordinary ... by the closure of myths, if one understands that closure as the disenchantment of the world. Within the modern, let us say, rationalist view of political philosophy, stories may sometimes be employed

Reconsidering reparations

political philosophy. This intervention emerges most incisively when Táíwò tackles the ‘harm repair’ position that aligns most intuitively with the conventional understanding of reparation as restitution. The ... on this account is not a liability but an asset for bending the moral arc of the universe. Specialists in political philosophy, historical sociology, critical race, and Indigenous studies might take

Strangers in our midst: The political philosophy of immigration

well-being and identities of masses of people. David Miller's political philosophy of immigration provides an accessible, informed, and thoroughgoing defence of immigration control by liberal democratic ... identities. Absent from Miller’s otherwise highly informed political philosophy of immigration is a critical focus on these dynamics of the international order that appear generative of so many contentious

Sophistry and political philosophy: Protagoras’ challenge to Socrates

merciless, if not cruel'' (p. 24). In Bartlett's brief introductory chapter (only four pages), we encounter a related contrast. Generalized in terms of the difference between philosophy and sophistry ... , Bartlett sets out to identify the distinct consistency of both Protagoras' theoretical and his moral-political teachings by contrasting them to Socrates' (p. 3). This he does through a detailed and attentive

Neoliberal fascism? Fascist trends in early neoliberal thought and echoes in the present

This article theorises the contemporary convergence of neoliberal and fascist principles by examining the thought of political actors in the 1930s and 1940s who were active in both neoliberal and ... unpacking the logics that led particular thinkers and political actors to believe that fascism was compatible with neoliberalism can shed light on the contemporary political moment. Based on my reading of

The moral and political philosophy of immigration: Liberty, security, and equality

this context, the publication of Jose´ Jorge Mendoza's The Moral and Political Philosophy of Immigration offers a timely and important contribution to politico-philosophical debates concerning the issue ... author traces this conflict from early modern Western political philosophy to contemporary debates around immigration to arrive at a position he terms the 'minimalist defence of immigrant rights' (p. xiii

Affluence and freedom: An environmental history of political ideas

broad and systematic reflection on modern political thought from an environmental perspective. In particular, it is the 'radical singularity' (p. 241) of the climate crisis which determines the book's ... -explode, as Charbonnier puts it, 'all strata of modern political reflexivity,' forcing us to redefine our categories of political thought. Climate change is a product of the economic, technological, and

The specter of Babel: A reconstruction of political judgment

be capable of political judgment. This is true in the obvious sense of making decisions between choices mediated through candidates and parties in elections. Concerns about the accuracy of information ... necessary for these choices fuel many contemporary political debates. The issue is much more difficult and foundational for democratic theorists. Michael J. Thompson's The Specter of Babel thoroughly explores

Living Law: Jewish Political Theology from Hermann Cohen to Hannah Arendt

foray and a marker in a burgeoning, always alternative, not-quite-outside subfield - Jewish political thought - as it is an intricately argued and immensely well-researched journey through a network of ... German-Jewish thinkers in the twentieth century. Vatter 'show[s] that Jewish political theology offers an alternative conception of divine sovereignty and of its democratic political implications' (p. 2