II Political thought and Theory / Théorie et Pensée Politiques
| Date | 01 April 2022 |
| Published date | 01 April 2022 |
| DOI | 10.1177/00208345221091613 |
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POLITICAL THOUGHT AND THEORY
THÉORIE ET PENSÉE POLITIQUES
72.1741 ALAMI, Ilias, et al. — Marxist state theory today. Science &
Society 85(2), 2021 : 162-206.
Articles by Ilias ALAMI, "State theory in the age of state capitalism 3.0?",
pp. 162-169; Clyde W. BARROW, "Globalization and the emergence of
the fortress state", pp. 170-176; Werner BONEFELD, "On the state as po-
litical form of society", pp. 177-183; Rob HUNTER, "Capitalism, depolitici-
zation, and climate politics", pp. 184-190; Stephen MAHER and Rafael
KHACHATURIAN, "Socialist strategy and the capitalist democratic state",
pp. 191-198; Kirstin MUNRO, "The welfare state and the bourgeois family-
household", pp. 199-206.
72.1742 ANTA, Claudio Giulio — The Europe of Jean Monnet: the
road to functionalism. History of European Ideas 47(5),
2021 : 773-784.
Jean Monnet was the inventor of the community method; by placing eco-
nomic integration before the political one, he reversed the criteria of unifi-
cation that had characterised the development of nation-states in the Old
Continent. He was never a government or party leader; despite this, he
engaged on an equal footing with the most prestigious statesmen of the
20th c., influencing their choices: from Viviani in 1914 to Giscard d’Estaing
in 1975, passing through Schuman, Spaak, De Gasperi, Adenauer and
Kennedy. Monnet favoured the creation of supranational community insti-
tutions. Through his foresight he was able to combine ideas and pragma-
tism and in this way he taught a whole generation of European leaders to
debate issues of common interest, thus overcom ing national selfishness.
[R, abr.]
72.1743 ASHBACH, Jonathan — Make high majesty look like itself:
Shakespeare's politics and Richard II. History of Political
Thought 42(4), Winter 2021 : 627-650.
Shakespeare's Richard II provides a wealth of information about the great
playwright's political theory. Among commentators who approach Shake-
speare's work from a political perspective, it is popular at present to read
the play as a morality tale about the Machiavellian nature of politics and
success therein. Much more fruitful (and accurate), however, is a more
traditional reading of the play that sees Richard as a tyrant and Boling-
broke as England's deliverer. On such a reading, the play aligns Shake-
speare with the tradition of thought that sees tyranny as rule for one's own
interest rather than the interest of the community; it paints a portrait of the
playwright's near-ideal ruler; it embodies Shakespeare's adherence to a
limited form of resistance theory; it develops his thought about good men
serving evil causes; it embraces a healthy form of populism. [R, abr.]
72.1744 BALDIN, Gregorio — The Republic of Venice and the devel-
opment of Jean Bodin's idea of sovereignty, from the
Methodus to the République. History of Political Thought
42(4), Winter 2021 : 602-626.
This article investigates Jean Bodin's attitude towards the Republic of Ven-
ice as it emerges in the Methodus and in the République. In these two
works, we see an ever-increasing interest in the Serenissima, where a
more detailed analysis of the Venetian Republic is accompanied by an
evolution of Bodin's concept of sovereignty. As I will demonstrate, this is
not incidental, since an attentive analysis of the Venetian political institu-
tions led Bodin to develop a more elaborate idea of sovereignty. Bodin
achieved this by focusing on the prerogative of the sovereign power and,
in doing so, reflected on his main sources, Gasparo Contarini and Donato
Giannotti. [R]
72.1745 BORRIELLO, Arthur ; JÄGER, Anton — The antinomies of
Ernesto Laclau: a reassessment. Journal of Political Ideolo-
gies 26(3), 2021 : 298-316.
This article provides an internal assessment of E. Laclau’s theory of pop-
ulism. While critiques of Laclau have been made from a variety of tradi-
tions, few scholars have sought to work through the contradictions of his
thought on internal terms. This article identifies some key antinomies in
Laclau’s oeuvre and hints at some redemptive strategies. It starts with a
short summary of Laclau’s conception of populism in contextual and con-
ceptual fashion. Subsequently, four possible deficits of Laclau’s theory are
examined, ranging from a tension between verticality and horizontality, an
ahistorical dimension, a descriptive and normative hyperformalism, and
the lack of a reflexive approach to the term ‘populism’ itself. The a rticle
finishes with a fresh research agenda for ‘post-Laclauian’ theories of pop-
ulism. [R]
72.1746 BRUNKHORST, Hauke — A Marxist Educated Kant: philos-
ophy of history in Kant and the Frankfurt School. Kantian
Review 25(4), Dec. 2020 : 515-540.
In a lecture that Habermas gave on his 90th birthday he ironically, but with
serious intent, called a good Kant a sufficiently Marxist-educated Kant.
This dialectical Kant is the only one of the many Kants who maintains the
idea of an unconditioned moral autonomy but completely within evolution,
history and in the middle of societal class and other struggles. The article
tries to show what Kant could have learned from his later critics to enable
him to become a member of the Frankfurt School’s neo-Marxist theory of
society. [R] [First article of a thematic issue on "Kant and the Frankfurt
School". See also Abstr. 72.1751, 1752, 1759, 1760, 1768, 1782, 1791]
72.1747 BUEGER, Christian — Meditating deformalization: remarks
on “Of experts, helpers, and enthusiasts”. International
Theory 13(3), Nov. 2021 : 546-551.
Moving away from studying actors to studying practices opens a fascinat-
ing vista of global governance. Kratochwil provokes inquiry into the prac-
tical work actual people do in international relations. He helps to move
beyond binaries by offering a pragmatic approach to global governance in
a fragmented institutional environment. Yet, his criticism of best practices
for their problems of applicability and perverse side-effects misses the ex-
istence of different kinds of best practices. Some of them have been highly
successful, such as the ‘Best Management Practices to Deter Piracy in the
Gulf of Aden and off the Coast of Somalia’. One should not underestimate
the potential of practices in both advancing scientific knowledge and ‘real-
world’ change. [R] [See Abstr. 72.1786]
72.1748 CARRABREGU, Gent — Arendt's idea of the university.
History of European Ideas 47(4), 2021 : 604-634.
This article offers the first comprehensive reconstruction of H. Arendt's
contribution to the venerable chapter of modern intellectual history known
as ‘the Idea of the university.’ Arendt first jotted down her thoughts on this
topic in a 1946 letter to K. Jaspers, in response to the manuscript of his
then forthcoming book Die Idee der Universität. She later revisited the
topic in three different moments. We trace these three sequels back to
three contemporary political crises to which she bore witness: (1) the prob-
lem of Arab-Jewish relations following the founding of Israel, (2) the sup-
pression of freedom of speech during the McCarthy era, and (3) the Amer-
ican student protest movement of the 1960s. The article contends that the
history of Arendt's reflections on the university bears on our understanding
of the evolution of her political thought. [R, abr.]
72.1749 CHETTY, Kiraan — Global justice, foreign policy, and the
law of peoples: a Rawlsian defence of the Commonwealth.
Round Table 110(2), 2021 : 264-269.
Ever since its entrenching of a fundamentally political mission with the Ha-
rare Declaration in 1991, the relevance of the modern Commonwealth has
been fiercely contested. Not only has its organizational purpose been
questioned but its efficacy in delivering its democratic goals continues to
be undermined as well. This article seeks to relocate the debate to within
the spheres of political philosophy and normative IR theory and argues
that a defense of the Commonwealth can be found in John Rawls’ The
Law of Peoples. This defense, however, is conditioned on and accompa-
nied with a proposal for an open enlargement foreign policy which furthers
the Commonwealth’s commitment to global justice. [R]
72.1750 CHRISTMAS, Billy — Against Kantian statism. Journal of
Politics 83(4), Oct. 2021 : 1721-1733.
Kantian statists believe that the state is a conceptual prerequisite for the
acquisition of property rights and, hence, of freedom itself. They argue that
under statelessness, property rights are indeterminate, unilateral, and un-
assured and therefore remain merely provisional until a state is instituted.
We are not morally bound by merely provisional rights, and hence there
can be no justice (or injustice) without a state. This article makes two ar-
guments. First, it argues that property rights need not be conceptually in-
determinate under statelessness. Social conventions that fall short of a
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