Reply to my critics
| DOI | 10.1177/14748851211002028 |
| Author | Ryan Patrick Hanley |
| Published date | 01 July 2021 |
| Date | 01 July 2021 |
| Subject Matter | Symposium on Ryan Hanley’s Fénelon |
Symposium on Ryan Hanley’s F
enelon EJPT
Reply to my critics
Ryan Patrick Hanley
Boston College, USA
Ryan Patrick Hanley, The Political Philosophy of F
enelon, Oxford University Press: New York, NY,
2020; 324 pp.: ISBN 9780190079635, US$39.95 (hbk)
Franc¸ois F
enelon, F
enelon: Moral and Political Writings, edited and translated by Ryan Patrick
Hanley, Oxford University Press: New York, NY, 2020; 286 pp.: ISBN 9780190079581, US$39.95
(hbk)
Abstract
This reply to my five generous and insightful critics – Gianna Englert, David Williams,
Alexandra Oprea, Genevi
eve Roussli
ere, and Brandon Turner – focuses on three key
issues they raise: the relationship of past ideas to present politics, the utility of ideo-
logical labels in the history of political thought, and the relationship of political philos-
ophy to religion and theology.
Keywords
F
enelon, political philosophy, self-love, Telemachus, virtue
I am extremely grateful to my critics for their generous engagement with my work
on F
enelon, and also very grateful to the editors of the European Journal of
Political Theory for hosting this symposium. The issues raised by my critics are
important and speak to issues likely to be of interest to a broad cross-section of
political theorists. Three issues they raise seem to me especially important and
especially likely to be of interest to EJPT’s readership: the relationship of past
ideas to present politics; the utility of ideological labels in political theory and
intellectual history; and the relationship of political philosophy to both religion
and theology.
Corresponding author:
Ryan Patrick Hanley, Boston College, 140 Commonwealth Ave, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts 02467, USA.
Email: ryan.hanley@bc.edu
European Journal of Political Theory
2021, Vol. 20(3) 599–604
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