Introduction
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In: Journal of Public Policy, Band 18, Heft 1, S. 101-103
In: Pouvoirs: revue française d'études constitutionnelles et politiques, Heft 82, S. 17-34
ISSN: 0152-0768
In: Rethinking Local Democracy, S. 89-110
In: The journal of political philosophy, Band 4, Heft 2, S. 169-189
ISSN: 1467-9760
In: Politics, Band 16, Heft 2, S. 109-111
ISSN: 0263-3957
In response to a criticism by Toby Lowe (1996) of the authors' 1994 article "Blind Alleys: Communitarianism" (see abstracts 9712306 & 9712315]), it is suggested that the concept community is underspecified in the political theory literature -- it must have a more specific reference than just some collectivity or network of social relations. But attempts to identify what is specific about the relations of community are unsatisfactory. Additionally, references to actual physical community overlook its symbolic & imagined aspects, which destabilize putative communities as much as they stabilize them. Analysis of social relations & networks, & theories of what patterns of relations are conducive to human flourishing, should deploy more precise sociological categories. 7 References. Adapted from the source document.
In: Politics, Band 16, Heft 2, S. 109-111
ISSN: 1467-9256
The concept 'community' is underspecified in the political theory literature – it must have a more specific reference than just some collectivity or some network of social relations. But attempts to specify what is specific about the relation of community are unsatisfactory. And references to 'actual physical' communities overlook the symbolic and imagined aspects of community, which furthermore destabilise putative communities as much as they stabilise them. Analysis of social relations and networks, and theories of what patterns of relations are conducive to human flourishing should deploy more precise sociological categories.
In: Political studies: the journal of the Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom, Band 43, Heft 2, S. 233-247
ISSN: 1467-9248
This paper is a critical discussion of a number of related themes in John Rawls' Political Liberalism. First, it considers whether Rawls' recent statement of his position proceeds from an adequate methodology for political theory. In particular, it questions whether Rawls has succeeded in accommodating both universalist, analytic and particularist, interpretive aspects of the political theoretical enterprise. Second, it engages in critical analysis of the conceptions of the political and the public which lie at the core of Rawls' theory. In this part of the paper, an important though not exclusive focus will be certain questions raised by Susan Moller Okin and other feminist critics of Rawls about the internal consistency of his conception of justice. It is argued that Political Liberalism neither addresses these questions explicitly nor, contrary to Okin's view, provides implicit conceptual tools which could allow a sympathetic interpreter of Rawls to do so. The direction of the argument will suggest certain preconditions for the development of a more substantively and methodologically adequate approach to political theory.
In: Political studies, Band 43, Heft 2, S. 233-247
ISSN: 0032-3217