II Political Thinkers and Ideas / Penseurs et Idées Politiques

DOI10.1177/00208345080580050201
Published date01 October 2008
Date01 October 2008
Subject MatterArticles
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POLITICAL THINKE RS AND IDEAS
PENSEURS ET IDÉES POLITIQUES
58.6386 ALÚTIZ, Juan Carlos El problema de la estabilidad
normativa en la filosofía po lítica de John Rawls (The
problem of normative stability in the political philosophy
of John Rawls). Política y Sociedad 44(2), 2007 : 229-243.
The problem of stability in normative theoretical models refers to ques-
tions such as t he legitima cy of social organization principles and the
moral motivation to accept them and adapt personal behavior to them.
These two questions are confronted by Rawls i n a very different manner
in his two main works of reference: from an internal standpoint in A
Theory of Justice [Cambridge, Mass., 1971], an d a more external outlook
in Political Liberalism [New York, 1993]. [R, abr.]
58.6387 BARKER, Isabelle V. — Charismatic economies: Pente-
costalism, economic restructuring, and social r eproduc-
tion. New Political Science 29(4), Dec. 2007 : 407-427.
Pentecostalism is one of the world's fastest growing religio ns, expanding
most quickly in Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa, and parts of Asia. To
make sense of this expansion in so many developing regions, I suggest
that Pentecostalism fosters norms an d behaviors that harmonize with
neoliberal economic restructuring. I frame this theoretically with K .
Polanyi's notion of double movement. In our current era of weakened
state governance vis-à-vis neoliberal trade and fiscal policy, non-state
sites of reaction have emerged. Pentecostalism is one such site, and, in
contrast with Polanyi's example, I suggest that Pentecos talism has
embedded the self-regulated aspects of neoliberal capitalism. I make this
argument b y using the feminist political economy theorization of social
reproduction to interpret a num ber of empirical stu dies of Pentecostal-
ism. [R, abr.]
58.6388 BLAIR, Jonathan — Context, event, politics: recovering
the political in the work of Jacques Derrida. Telos 141,
Winter 2007 : 149-165.
The critique of re ductionism underlies this survey of the political element
in Derrida's work, which is n ot restricted to the later writings, deriving
instead from the 1971 conference paper "Signature, Event, Context",
which, as A. Badiou later underscored, rejects historicism as a "tempo-
ralization of context". Naturalism and historicism — as Husserl pointed
out long ago — represent parallel degradations of thought. Derrida's
writing resists reduction and therefore maintains an open space, which is
the political. [R] [See Abstr. 58.6400]
58.6389 BOER, Roland — The perpetual allure of the Bible for
Marxism. Historical Materialism 15(4), 2007 : 53-77.
In light of the general lack of awareness of the long history of Western
Marxist fascination wi th the Bible, this article offers a synopsis of part of
that history. After showing how the Bibl e was an important element in the
work of E. Bloch, W. Benjamin and Th. Adorno, it offers a critique of the
current engagements with it by A. Badiou, S. Žižek, T. Eagleton and G.
Agamben. The third section de als with the most significant element of
the r eligious Left in recent years, namely liberation theology. It closes
with so me comments concerning the growth of Marxist biblical studies
and some suggestions for the way Marxism might reconnect with a non-
reified biblical tradition. [R]
58.6390 BUDD, Adrian Transnationalist Marxism: a critique.
Contemporary Politics 13(4), Dec. 2007 : 331-347.
Recent changes in the global political economy have promoted renewed
theorizing among Marxist-inspired writers in IR and IPE. One conse-
quence of t his has been the emergence of a transnati onalist current,
which argues that traditional Marxis t perspectives on inter-imperialist
rivalry have been rendered obsolete by a developing transnationalization
of production, class-formation and state power. These arguments,
however, overlook the persistence of fo rms and processes inherited from
the past and underplay the competitive dynamic of the contemporary
world system. This article argues that the transnationalist perspective is
one-sided and that the world system is a complex ensemble of national
and transnational dynamics in which state power and geo-political con-
flict between states remain vital components. [R]
58.6391 CHASKIEL, Patrick — D e Rousseau à Marx : les mét amor-
phoses du peuple (From R ousseau to Marx: metamor-
phoses of the people (From Rousseau to Marx: meta-
morphoses of the people). He rmès 42, 2005 : 32-37. [Ré-
sumé en français]
In the m ajor philosophical theories of the 18th and 19th c., the question
of the people aris es, in its connection with the sovereign, its unity and
divisions. A first approach considers that the social contract constitutes
the basis on whic h the relation of the people with the sovereign is deter-
mined and reciprocally. W hereas Rousseau proposes the id ea of a
difficult "merger", Kant refered to the mediation of the laws which unite
the peo ple and the state through the public use of reason. Hegel and
Marx broke with these theses. Hegel made the universalist state the final
development of the spirit, and the people the result of the universality
embodied by the monarch. Marx saw in the proletariat, r ather than in the
people, the social class which, through the class struggle, was able to
carry out popular ema ncipation. In spite of these differences, these
philosophical theo ries raise a very contemporary fundamental problem:
the separation between two categories of citizens, according to whether
they are or not integrated in society. [R, abr.] [Part of a series of articles
on "People, popular, populism", edited and introd uced by Pascal
DURAND and Marc LITS. See also Abstr. 58.6189, 6209 , 6712, 6783,
6792]
58.6392 CONGLETON, Roger D. — America’s neglected debt to
the Dutch: an institutional perspective. Constitutional P o-
litical Economy 19(1), March 2008 : 35-59.
America's early constitutional development owes a good deal to the
experience and policies of the Dutch republic. Many of the parallels are
direct: in the late 16th c., the Dutch fought a successful war to secede
from a major em pire. They wrote a declaration of independence and
adopted a federal m odel of Republican governance almost exa ctly two
hundred years before the Americans. Somewhat later, the Dutch republic
and its political institutions subsequently inspired a nd protected Enlight-
enment scholars. Its leading political family and army playe d a crucial
role in curtailing English absolutism in England and in England's Ameri-
can colonies, an d its federal templat e provided a model for early Ameri-
can institutions. [R]
58.6393 GONZÁLEZ CUEVAS, Pedro Carlos La Aufklärung
conservadora : pensamiento español de Gonzalo
Fernández de la Mora (The conserv ative Enlightenment:
the Spanish thought of Gonzalo Fernández de la Mora).
Revista de Estudios políticos 138, Oct.-Dec. 2007 : 11-65.
Starting in the 1960, Spanish society underwent qualitative changes in its
socioeconomic structure, albeit still affected by the religious an d cultural

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