II Political Thinkers and Ideas / Penseurs et Idées Politiques
| Date | 01 June 2019 |
| Published date | 01 June 2019 |
| DOI | 10.1177/002083451906900302 |
| Subject Matter | Abstracts |
360
II
POLITICAL THINKERS AND IDEAS
PENSEURS ET IDÉES POLITIQUES
69.3558 AALBERTS, Tanja — Misrecognition in legal practice: the
aporia of the Family of Nations. Review of International
Studies 44(5), Dec. 2018 : 863-881.
This article discusses the concept of misrecognition to analyze interna-
tional legal ordering in the practice of colonial treaty-making. Recognition
is about exclusion as much as it is about inclusion. The most obvious
example is the 19th-c. applications of the standard of civilization, where
the European Family of Nations introduced the criterion of "civilization",
which excluded non-European entities as sovereigns and legitimized
their colonization. But at the same time colonial treaties included the
‘savage rulers’ as signatory powers, and thus legal persons within the
international legal order that at once excluded them. This contribution
discusses these treaty-making practices as a practice of misrecognition.
A rereading of Hegel’s famous master-slave metaphor through the
concept of misrecognition sheds light on the reversals and contradictions
of the colonial legal enterprise. [R] [See Abstr. 69.3307]
69.3559 ANGELLA, Marco — On the consistency of Axel Hon-
neth’s critical theory: methodology, critique, and current
struggles for recognition. Philosophical Forum 49(4), Win-
ter 2018 : 483-509.
Drawing upon the tradition of the Frankfurt School critical social theory,
over the decades A. Honneth has been developing one of the most fully
structured paradigms of recognition in the field of social philosophy,
whose methodology he accurately reconstructs. Analysis of A. Honneth’s
thought up to present time will eventually end up by highlighting an issue
related to the concrete forms that the struggle for recognition has taken
on over the last 15-20 years. [R]
69.3560 ATACK, Carol — Plato, Foucault and the conceptualiza-
tion of parrhesia. History of Political Thought 40(1), Spring
2019 : 23-48.
Contemporary interest in free speech and in Plato's relationship with
Athenian democracy has led scholars to explore Plato's thought on frank
speech in relation to political contexts as well as philosophical ones. The
form of parrhesia has been elevated to a central concept, not least
through M. Foucault's, along with the depiction of Plato's character
Socrates as a prototypical free speech martyr. The ambiguity of Plato's
various references to frank speech is amplified in Foucault's complex
account, and this paper argues that Socrates, if a parrhesiast, acts as
one from a position of power rather than weakness. The publication of a
final 'official' set of Foucault's papers on the topic provides an opportunity
to revisit both Plato's thought and Foucault's analysis. [R]
69.3561 BABICH, Babette — On Günther Anders, political media
theory, an d nuclear violence. Philosophy and Social Criti-
cism 44(10), Dec. 2018 : 1110-1126.
Günther Anders was a philosopher concerned with the political and
social implications of power, both as expressed in the media and its
tendency to elide the citizenry and thus the very possibility of democracy
and the political implications of our participation in our own subjugation in
the image of modern social media beginning with radio and television.
Anders was particularly concerned with two bombs dropped on Japan at
the end of World War II, and he was just as concerned with the so-called
“peaceful” uses of nuclear power, what he named our apocalypse -
blindness and the urgency of violence. To make this case I draw on
Baudrillard on “speech without response” and Gadamer on conversation.
[R]
69.3562 BARDIN, Andrea — Materialism and right reason in
Hobbes's political treatises: a troubled foundation for
civil science. History of Political Thought 40(1), Spring
2019 : 85-110.
After abandoning the approach taken in The Elements of Law, Hobbes
used De Cive to establish his new civil science on a materialist basis,
thus challenging the dualist foundations of Descartes's mechanical
philosophy. This shift is analysed here with close reference to the discon-
tinuity in Hobbes's use of the concepts of 'laws of nature' and 'right
reason'. The article argues that, the descriptive nature of mechanics
notwithstanding, De Cive's foundational aim left civil science with the
normative task of producing its own material conditions of possibility
until, in Leviathan, Hobbes went as far as reconsidering Plato's philo-
sophical commitment to political pedagogy. [R]
69.3563 BROOKS, Thom — Capabilities political liberalism and
private law. Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie 104(4),
2018 : 556-569.
This article argues political liberalism can and should be revised to
improve its relevance to the private law. This approach is not a rejection
of political liberalism, but instead a restatement consistent with the
fundamental tenets of Rawls's theory of justice. The first part begins with
a brief summary of Rawls's political liberalism. The second part discuss-
es the strategies used to demonstrate the relevance of Rawls's theory to
the private law. The third part examines how Rawls's theory can and
should be revised by incorporating capabilities. I argue this revision can
be undertaken in a way that best develops the relevance of political
liberalism. [R]
69.3564 CASSATELLA, Andrea — Secularism and the politics of
translation. Contemporary Political Theory 18(1), March
2019 : 65-87.
This article investigates the politics of translation at work in contemporary
theories of secularism. It turns to the thought of Jacques Derrida in order
to challenge liberal and more critical perspectives. Without a complex
analysis of translation and its ethico-political effects, the revisitation of
secularism remains deficient, leaving the liberal politics of translation
exclusionary and that of their critics ineffective. Pointing to the resources
Derrida offers for a deeper understanding of the nature, political stakes,
and implications of translation, this article illuminates an understudied
and yet crucial dimension of the relationship between religion and poli-
tics, and more generally of public life. [R]
69.3565 CAVER, Martin — A different price for the ticket: Hannah
Arendt and James Baldwin on love and politics. Polity
51(1), Jan. 2019 : 35-61.
In 1962, James Baldwin received a letter from Hannah Arendt in re-
sponse to a recently published essay. It read: “In politics, love is a
stranger… Hatred and love belong together… You can afford them only
in private and, as a people, only so long as you are not free.” I use this
letter as a point of departure to examine the productive similarities and
differences between these two important theorists of love’s relationship
to politics. Arendt provides crucial resources in understanding the dan-
gers love can play in modern alienation. However, her alternative, a love
of the world, is limited by her account of judgment. Baldwin’s ideal of love
shows equal concern for the public world, but it elevates the role of
feeling in judgment. [R, abr.]
69.3566 CLAASSEN, Rutger J. G. — European duties of social
justice: a Kantian framework. Journal of Common Market
Studies 57(1), Jan. 2017 : 44-59.
This contribution asks how to approach the question of whether the EU
should — replacing or supplementing member states — also be a locus
of social justice-based duties to provide welfare state services. It scruti-
nizes two important theories of global justice (cosmopolitan and relation-
al theories) and finds that their normative assumptions hinder them from
adequately addressing this question. A new theory is proposed, inspired
by Immanuel Kant's political philosophy. The core idea is that social
justice requires public authorities to protect citizens against private forms
of coercion; and that the level (national, European, global) at which such
authority needs to be exercised depends on which arrangement best
protects citizens' rights to independence. The paper outlines several
duties of global justice to give specificity to this general principle. [R]
[See Abstr. 69.4079]
69.3567 CROWDER, George — Value, pluralism, constitutional-
ism, and democracy: Waldron and Berlin in debate. Re-
view of Politics 81(1), Winter 2019 : 101-127.
Jeremy Waldron claims that Isaiah Berlin wrongly neglects, and is hostile
to, constitutional and democratic institutions. I argue that although Berlin
offers no extended discussion of constitutionalism or democracy, he is
not hostile to them. Moreover, the logic of Berlin's value pluralism is
To continue reading
Request your trial