II: Political Thinkers and Ideas; Penseurs et Idées Politiques
| DOI | 10.1177/002083451806800602 |
| Published date | 01 December 2018 |
| Date | 01 December 2018 |
| Subject Matter | Abstracts |
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POLITICAL THINKERS AND IDEAS
PENSEURS ET IDÉES POLITIQUES
68.7124 ATKINS, Judi — "Strang ers in their own country": epide-
ictic rhetoric and communal definition in Enoch Powell's
"Rivers of blood" speech [1968]. Political Quarterly 89(3),
July-Sept. 2018 : 362-369.
This article treats Enoch Powell's ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech as an exam-
ple of the epideictic rhetoric of blame and exclusion. Drawing on a
framework proposed by Celeste Michelle Condit, the analysis explores
the functions of the address for the speaker and for the audience. Of
particular concern are Powell's self-presentation as a statesman and
prophet; his account of the impact and consequences of unrestricted
immigration; and his portrayal of a community where ordinary, decent
English people were being displaced and victimised by Commonwealth
immigrants — a process in which he claimed the authorities were com-
plicit. For the audience, the speech gave public expression to their
concerns about immigration, though Powell's predictions of a dystopian
future also aroused sentiments of anger and foreboding. Its influence is
still apparent in contemporary debates over immigration. [R, abr.] [See
Abstr. 68.7124]
68.7125 BAGG, Samuel — What makes a political theory Political?
A comment on Waldron. Political Studies Review 16(3),
Aug. 2018 : 184-191.
This article considers J. Waldron’s recent contribution to a growing
conversation about how to make political theory and philosophy more
responsive to real politics — Political Political Theory [Harvard U. P.,
2016] — in light of his broader body of work, especially Law and Dis-
agreement. I argue that rather than providing a genuine alternative to the
idealization and abstraction characteristic of what Waldron labels the
“justice industry,” he uses the concept of what counts as properly “politi-
cal” to grant nearly absolute priority to a certain class of concerns over
others. This strategy places him in the company of a long line of liberal
theorists, but it does not necessarily make his theory more political than
its rivals. His alternative simply focuses its idealization and abstraction
on the ideal of legitimacy rather than justice. [R]
68.7126 BOETTKE, Peter J. ; STEIN, Solomon M. ; STORR, Virgil
Henry — Schumpeter, socialism, and irony. Critical Re-
view 29(4), 2017 : 415-446.
[J. A.] Schumpeter’s theory of socialism pivots on his response to Ludwig
von Mises’s claim that rational economic calculation is “impossible” in a
socialist economy because socialism eliminates market prices for the
means of production. Schumpeter appears to assume away Mises’s
epistemic concerns about socialism by contending that it is theoretically
possible to determine which goods should be produced in a socialist
economy if all the relevant data are known — which begs the question
Mises had asked. Did Schumpeter really commit such an elementary
error of interpretation? Or was the appearance of doing so part of his
attempt to communicate to the reader of Capitalism, Socialism and
Democracy [Harper and Row, 1942] a host of reservations about the
likely consequences of socialism in practice, even as he ostentatiously
praised its feasibility in principle? [R, abr.] [First article of a thematic
issue on "Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy after 75 years". See also
Abstr. 68.7131, 7159, 7161, 7162, 7175]
68.7127 BUCHSTEIN, Hubertus — Demokratie und politische
Selbstwirksamkeit (Democracy and political self-
efficacy). Forschungsjournal Neue soziale Bewegungen
31(1-2), 2018 : 94-100.
Hartmut Rosa’s book‚ Resonanz. Eine Soziologie der Weltbeziehung
[Suhrkamp, 2016] is one of the most original approached in current
Critical Theory. So far, its full potential for democratic theory has not
been worked out. The article reconstructs Rosa’s approach and modifies
it in two ways in order to emphasize the crucial role of individual and
collective political self-efficacy for democratic institutions and practices.
[R] [See Abstr. 68.7046]
68.7128 BURR, Jennifer ; GIBSON, Barry — Informed consent in
research ethics: an analysis from the perspective of
Luhmann’s social systems theory. Social Theory and
Health 16(3), Aug. 2018 : 241-255.
We explore the origins and dynamics of ethical communication with
reference to the requirements for informed consent provision in research
ethics. We adopt the analytical framework developed in Luhmann’s
social systems theory to illustrate how ethical communication about
informed consent has developed in the medical, legal and scientific
systems. We would like to suggest that the development of ethical
communication is the result of the developing semantics of individuality
and personhood. Our analysis adds specific observations about how
communication about research ethics, and informed consent specifically,
reduces complexity in an increasingly functionally differentiated society.
[R]
68.7129 BUTORAC, Sean Kim — Hannah Arendt, James Baldwin,
and the politics of love. Political Research Quarterly 71(3),
Sept. 2018 : 710-721.
Does love have a place in the inherently conflictual realm of democratic
politics, particularly in a racialized democracy? This article engages the
question of love’s politics by way of H. Arendt’s critique of J. Baldwin’s
“Letter from a Region in My Mind.” Troubled by his “gospel of love,”
Arendt wrote to Baldwin, warning him that in politics, love will achieve
nothing “except hypocrisy.” Contra Arendt, who argues that love is
antipolitical, I show how Baldwin utilizes love to reclaim the lost promise
of American democracy. I show how love enables us to condemn the
exploitative logic of capitalism and imagine new modes of relationality.
[R, abr.]
68.7130 CHARETTE, Danielle — Catilinarian cadences in Machia-
velli's Florentine histories: Ciceronian consensus and
corrupted humanism. History of Political Thought 39(3),
2018 : 439-464.
In debates over Machiavelli's uneasy relationship with classical republi-
canism, readers have overlooked the subversive uses to which Machia-
velli puts Cicero and the Catiline conspiracy in his Florentine Histories.
The speeches Machiavelli writes for Florence's nobili reveal leaders well-
rehearsed in humanist language, even as they perpetrate crimes against
the city. Machiavelli's critique of the elite's ability to thwart popular tu-
mults is underscored by his allusions to Cicero — especially Cicero's
account of Catiline. These references offer Machiavelli an opportunity
both to expose the Ciceronian style of promoting concord over conflict
and to challenge Florentine historiographers, who had become oddly
preoccupied with Catiline's Tuscan roots. [R]
68.7131 CHERNESKI, JanaLee — An unacknowledged adversary:
Carl Schmitt, Joseph Schumpeter, and the classical doc-
trine of democracy. Critical Review 29(4), 2017 : 447-472.
In Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy [Harper and Row, 1942], J. A.
Schumpeter contrasted his definition of democracy against w hat he
called its “Classical Doctrine.” Received scholarly wisdom holds either
that the classical doctrine had no real historic al embodiments, or that it is
a composite of historical arguments pieced together only so that Schum-
peter could knock them down. Arguably, however, Schumpeter actually
drew the classical doctrine from a very real source: Carl Schmitt. [R]
[See Abstr. 68.7126]
68.7132 COLONOMOS, Ariel — Hostageship: what can we learn
from Mauss? Journal of International Political Theory 14(2),
June 2018 : 240-256.
In The Gift [1925], Marcel Mauss refers to the granting of hostages as
“acts of generosity.” In line with Mauss’ approach, I consider hostageship
as a “total social phenomenon,” combining politics, law, and economics,
in both domestic and global settings, which reveals structural political
and social questions that need to be addressed. The article highlights the
role that hostages fulfilled as “gifts” in pre-modern international relations
when hostages were granted and not taken as they are today. I underline
the role they notably performed as elements of proto-diplomacy. I show
the reasons why the function of hostages has changed over time by
underlining the importance of the later Middle Ages as a transitional
moment. Finally, I discuss the issue of contemporary hostageship from a
normative perspective. [R, abr.] [See Abstr. 68.7142]
68.7133 FLEMMEN, Magne Paalgard ; HAAKESTAD, Hedda —
Class and politics in twenty-first century Norway: a ho-
mology of positions and position-taking. European Socie-
ties 20(3), July 2018 : 401-423.
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