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https://sci-hub.st/https://doi.org/10.1177/0191453715583711 https://www.academia.edu/11695900/Radicalizing_Realism_in_Political_Theory Article Raymond Geuss' radicalization of realism in political theory PSC Philosophy and Social Criticism I-20 © The Author(s) 2015 Reprints and permission: sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/0191453715583711 psc.sagepub.com OSAGE Janosch Prinz University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK Abstract Raymond Geuss has been viewed as one of the figureheads of the recent debates about realism in political theory. This interpretation, however, depends on a truncated understanding of his work of the past 30 years. I will offer the first sustained engagement with this work (in English and German) which allows understanding his realism as a project for reorienting political theory, particularly the relationship between political theory and politics. I interpret this reorientation as a radicalization of realism in political theory through the combination of the emphasis on the critical purpose of political theory and the provision of practical, contextual orientation. Their compatibility depends on Geuss' understanding of criticism as negative, of power as 'detoxified' and of the critical purchase of political theory as based on the diagnostic engagement with its context. This radicalization particularly challenges the understanding of how political theory relates to its political context.
willowDec 13, 2024
enzo rossi, What Can Epistemic Normativity Tell us About Politics? Ideology, Power, and the Epistemology of Radical Realism, 8
still digesting (and have some reservations) but this bar goes hard mr rossi
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willowDec 30, 2024
Janosch Prinz, Radicalizing Realism in Political Theory, pg 139 (OP post quote is on pg 110) The questioning and interrogating critique in question here oscillates between immanent and negativistic forms of critique on the one hand and dissociating forms of critique on the other.19 Immanent and negativistic forms of critique are important as questioning and interrogating critique starts from within an already ongoing process specific to a historical political context. It intervenes into this process through the diagnosis of problems and their further problematization and then tries to build conceptual resources for evaluating and overcoming these problems. Dissociating forms of critique proceed from a similar starting position and share a negativistic perspective. However, here the diagnosis is used to contribute to the goal of dissociating oneself as much as possible from one’s context without abstracting from the contingencies that characterize this context. Importantly, the latter understanding of critique also does not draw on some kind of developmental model – of rationality or of problem-solving capacities – which is common to forms of immanent critique. For this form of critique the suspension of judgment is already an achievement, the further consequences of which cannot be determined by the critique itself (see also Foucault 1984: 68). Foucault 1984 is: 'Du pouvoir' In: L’Express 1722 (6-12 July 1984): 56-68. Or for the English translation: 'On Power' Politics, Philosophy, Culture Interviews and Other Writings, 1977-1984, 96-110. Footnote 19: I view this as an expansion of my development of Geuss’ modifications of early Critical Theory. If one wants to use labels one could see the former as a Hegelian-Frankfurt School line and the latter a Nietzschean-Foucauldian line. A connection of these lines consists in their emphasis on the importance of diagnosis for political thought (Sluga 2011: 830).
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