III Political Thought and Theory / Théorie et Pensée Politiques
| Published date | 01 June 2023 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/00208345231182640 |
| Date | 01 June 2023 |
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POLITICAL THOUGHT AND THEORY
THÉORIE ET PENSÉE POLITIQUES
73.3123 ÁLVAREZ, David ; CARDOSO ROSAS, João, eds. — Charles
Beitz’s The Idea of Human Rights ten years on. Critical Re-
view of International Social and Political Philosophy 25(1),
2022 : 1-164.
Introduction, pp. 1-8, by the editors. Articles by Charles R. BEITZ, "The
practice and its authority: an elaboration", pp. 9-28; Cristina LAFONT, "Are
human rights associative rights? The debate between humanist and polit-
ical conceptions of human rights revisited", pp. 29-49; Andrea SANGIO-
VANNI, "Human rights practices", pp. 50-65; Andreas FOLLESDAL, "Add
international courts to The Idea of Human Rights and stir … on Beitz’ The
Idea of Human Rights after 10 years", pp. 66-86; Alain ZYSSET, "Charles
Beitz’ idea of human rights and the limits of law", pp. 87-106; Regina
KREIDE, "Global (in)justice and the human right to housing. A practice-
based approach", pp. 107-127; Luise K. MÜLLER, "Which practice? –
Rescuing the practical conception of human rights", pp. 128-142; Andre
SANTOS CAMPOS, "Long-term urgent interests and human rights prac-
tice: a challenge to the political conception", pp. 143-164.
73.3124 BEHRENT, Michael C. — A case for the young Foucault.
Critical Review 34(3-4), 2022 : 299-340.
Between 1949 and 1961 (or, arguably, 1966), three interconnected dimen-
sions of Foucault’s early thought emerged. First, the young Foucault of-
fered a Hegelian perspective on Kant’s notion of the transcendental. The
a priori conditions of thought, Foucault suggested, both shape and arise
from historical experience. Second, Foucault drew on Heidegger’s study
of Kant to argue that modern thought rests on the premise of human
finitude and embraces a problematic epistemology rooted in philosophical
anthropology. Foucault argued that anthropology enabled a vast extension
of the scope of possible knowledge predicated on the falsely modest pre-
tense that human understanding is inherently limited, even as it embraced
a diminished conception of human existence. Third, Foucault developed a
pointed critique of contemporary psychology and psychiatry, maintaining
that they fallaciously seek to acquire positive knowledge of human beings,
despite the fact the latter are inherently defined by what Foucault called
“negativity.” This three-pronged interpretation of the young Foucault al-
lows us to better situate Foucault’s work in intellectual history, to clarify his
key arguments, and to grasp the articulation of his youthful and his mature
thought. [R]
73.3125 BELLAMY, Richard — A Republican Europe of States: Cos-
mopolitanism, Intergovernmentalism and Democracy in
the EU (2019). Critical Review of International Social and Po-
litical Philosophy 25(4), 2022 : 577-635.
A symposium. Introduction by the author. Articles by GLYN MORGAN,
"Demoicracy and domination in a G2 world", pp. 577-584; Valentina GEN-
TILE, "Republican intergovernmentalism as a realistic utopia", pp. 585-
595; Carmen E. PAVEL, "The European Union and diminished state sov-
ereignty", pp. 596-603; Dorothea GÄDEKE, "How political is Republican-
ism? Walking the fine line between moralism and realism", pp. 604-615;
Dimitrios EFTHYMIOU, "EU Citizenship for a European Republic of the
Free and Equals or of States", pp. 616-623. See also author's reply, pp.
624-635.
73.3126 BORTIS, Heinrich — Classical-Keynesian political econ-
omy, not neoclassical economics, is the economic theory
of the future. Review of Political Economy 35(1), 2023 : 65-
97.
This article implies that the time is ripe for a new paradigm in economic
theory comprising classical (Ricardian) and Keynesian elements of analy-
sis. The central Section Five presents the basic equations of classical -
Keynesian political economy, the price and the quantity equation, based
on three constitutive principles: the classical labour value and surplus prin-
ciples and the Keynesian principle of effective demand. Subsequently, two
employment mechanisms implied in the super-multiplier relation, the clas-
sical-Keynesian quantity equation, are mentioned, the internal and the ex-
ternal employment mechanism. Section Seven provides an analysis of the
actual situation on the basis of the external employment mechanism, as-
sociated with cumulative processes of increasing disequilibria and ine-
qualities. Given this, it ought to be replaced by the internal employment
mechanism, allowing for Keynesian employment and distribution policies
(Section Eight). However, the internal mechanism can only be imple-
mented if a new world economic order is brought about, based upon a
supranational currency, that is, Keynes's bancor, to ensure balance of cur-
rent account equilibria worldwide. [R, abr.]
73.3127 BROPHY, Christopher Justin — Tying the threads together:
the political significance of young Nietzsche’s reception
of Plato’s Symposium. Perspectives on Political Science
52(1), 2023 : 29-38.
Nietzsche’s 1864 student essay, “On the Relationship of the Speech of
Alcibiades to the Rest of the Speeches in Plato’s Symposium” uses the
image of a knot (Knoten) to capture the dynamic tension between the
speculative orientation of Socrates and the practical orientation of Alcibia-
des, that is, between theory and life. This image of the “knot” as a dynamic
tension between philosophical principles is a forerunner of the position
Nietzsche will develop in his account of the “theoretical man” in The Birth
of Tragedy (1872) and the 1874 “un timely meditation” on history and life.
In this early essay, Nietzsche offers not merely an exposition of the Pla-
tonic dialogue, but a philosophical contribution of his own that clearly fa-
vors the orientation of Alcibiades. [R, abr.]
73.3128 BUNN, Philip D. — Freedom and the machine: technologi-
cal criticisms in Adam Smith’s thought. Political Research
Quarterly 76(1), March 2023 : 407-417.
In conversations surrounding technology and the future of politics, Adam
Smith is a valuable resource for evaluating the subtle relationship between
technology and freedom. Smith explores the tendency of specialization
occasioned by the advancement of machines to cause “mental mutilation”
where the worker’s human faculties are stunted through overspecialization
or narrowing of scope of opportunities to judge. It is the very freedom of
the worker that is at stake when the development and the exercise of judg-
ment are restricted. Taken together, Smith’s discussion of the advance-
ment of machines and free and independent judgment can aid contempo-
rary thinkers in understanding the relationship between technology and
freedom in commercial society, particularly if new technologies substitute
for the judgment of the worker or prevent the development of their judg-
ment. [R, abr.]
73.3129 CLEMENTS, Paul ; FORMOSA, Paul — Beyond ideal the-
ory: foundations for a critical Rawlsian theory of climate
justice. New Political Science 43(4), 2022 : 486-505.
Rawls’s contractualist approach to justice is well known for its adoption of
ideal theory. This approach starts by setting out the political goal or ideal
and leaves it to non-ideal o r partial compliance theory to map out ho w to
get there. However, Rawls’s use of ideal theory has been criticized by Sen
from the right and by Mouffe from the left. We critically address these con-
cerns in the context of developing a Rawlsian approach to climate justice.
While the importance of non-ideal theory for climate justice is increasingly
being understood, its strategic and institutional importance for a Rawlsian
approach needs further elaboration. We focus on the role of the Kantian
conception of the reasonable and rational powers of persons in Rawls’s
work and show how this helps us to develop a partial compliance theory.
[R, abr.]
73.3130 CLEMONS, Jared — From “freedom now!” to “Black Lives
Matter”: retrieving King and Randolph to theorize contem-
porary white antiracism. Perspectives on Politics 20(4),
2022 : 1290-1304.
Many were taken aback by the initial spike in support for Black Lives Mat-
ter among white Americans during the summer of 2020. But will these an-
tiracist attitudes translate into antiracist behavior? Accordingly, I ask under
what conditions do white Americans engage in antiracist behavior? To an-
swer this question, I build upon the insights of Martin Luther King, Jr., and
A. Philip Randolph to theorize contemporary white antiracism. I argue that,
under neoliberal capitalism, the conditions they laid out as necessary for
the cultivation of productive antiracist politics have been difficult to satisfy.
In lieu of that, in many instances, has been the privatization of racial re-
sponsibility, which I coin to describe a form of antiracist politics that relies
upon white individuals’ sympathetic (and often symbolic) gestures rather
than the implementation of more s tate programs to address structural ra-
cial injustices. [R, abr.] [See Abstr. 73.3357]
73.3131 COLE, Matthew B. — The desperate radicalism of Orwell’s
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