Social and Political Theory (Esp. Critical Theory)
Context and social criticism: The problem of context in the history of political thought and political theory
... supplemented by causal explanation because what he calls the 'meta-institution of language' itself depends upon 'social processes that are not reducible to normative relationships'.13 As such it cannot be the sole ...
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Political theory and social practices: G A Cohen, Rawls, Habermas and the problem of self grounding
... The problem with Moore’s practice of isolating the intrinsic value of organic unities by intuition is that it ‘conceals the fact that an organic unity has value in virtue of its structure, of the internal relations of ...
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The politics of humanity: humanitarianism and international political theory
... Ian Smillie and Larry Minear argue that at the heart of the lively debate over the moral necessity of humanitarian action lies “the unevenness of the response to emergencies, with human need going largely unaddressed in ...
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Methodological Nationalism, Migration, and Political Theory
... 18 migration functions in specific geographical sites. We need to understand how linkages around the world have been made possible by advances in technologically reconfigured space and, as a consequence, reshaped ...
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Rescuing Political Theory From Fact-Insensitivity
... ethical theory problem of whether we should seek a principle of equality that is more egalitarian than the difference ...a social order which irrationally does precious little when, vis-à-vis the human ...
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Why Žižek for Political Theory?
... passivity is what has to be supposed and negated for the notion of liberal freedom to make sense. The fantasy prevents us from confronting the trap of the forced choice. For example, we might imagine a being completely ...
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Political Theory in an Ethnographic Key
... hould political theorists engage in ethnography? In this letter, we assess a recent wave of interest in ethnography among political theorists and explain why it is a good ...of political phenomena ...
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Corporate personality: A political theory of association
... in theory, let alone in ...a social context for trans-generational solidarity, social justice, democracy and a host o f other splendid things he and other egalitarians are partial ...
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Reasonable agreement: A contractualist political theory
... their own rational self-interest, without knowledge of their personal situation, thus excluding knowledge of their gender, race, social class etc; in other words the original position embodies the idea of rational ...
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Creating a space for politics: Territory and political theory
... In The Law of Peoples. Rawls lists personal property as a human right that is not only a necessary component of just societies, but also as a condition that decent hierarchical peoples must meet before they can enter the ...
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A theory of need in international political theory: autonomy, freedom, and a global obligation
... Fischer and Ravizza stress the importance of individuals attaining control before their autonomy can be fully realised. Individuals cultivate the type of competence skills described above by learning to understand how ...
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Ethics, morality and the case for realist political theory
... rightful political action by pre-political moral principles (2005, ...our political, moral, social, interpretative, and other concepts’ (2005, ...of political realism advises against ...
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Transformation of the Political Theory: Cosmopolitan Citizenship and Democracy
... and political roots, but distinguishes between citizenship un- derstood as national identity, a status guaranteed by birth, and citizenship as a voluntary membership of a political ...patriotism. ...
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The Polis of Springfield: The Simpsons and the Teaching of Political Theory
... Finally, in an age of lack of participation in politics and in society in general, Springfield provides us with a refreshing example of a city with abundant social capital with people being members of numerous ...
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Getting political theory pregnant : conceiving a new model of political personhood
... All of this is perhaps not lost on liberals who ascribe to a particularly strong ver- sion of the coherent, separate, and autonomous physical and metaphysical self. Indeed, the inability to always see clearly where one ...
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Economic and Political Theory
... labor theory of ...labor theory of value to show how the capitalist exploits the worker in order to make ...his theory is to illuminate the essence of ...“common social substance of all ...
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TO THE BASICS OF MODERN POLITICAL ANTHROPOLOGY: FREEDOM AND JUSTICE IN THE SOCIAL CONTRACT THEORY OF T. HOBBES
... Conclusions. Political anthropology of ...modern social project, justified the issue of interaction between freedom and justice, which is fun- damentally important to nowadays, through the search for such a ...
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The levels of critique. Pierre Bourdieu and the political potential of social theory
... words, political battles should be party to a joint activity of ongoing critique of the very representation that produces the groups and, therefore, fosters the marginalization and oppression of a large variety of ...
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The utilisation of language in political marketing theory and practice
... of political science contributes to political marketing theory and ...that political science has a rich, valuable and vast, literature that is potentially useful for political marketing ...
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The political event : impossibilities of repositioning organisation theory
... Rather than being restricted to the effective and efficient management of modern forms of positioning, their work has attempted to develop, what Chia calls, a `social theory of organizat[r] ...
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