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just that guy i’m always yapping about
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