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    Interview: Nat Rutherford
    with Annika Loebig
    Philosophy Now 152 41-43. 2022.
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    Is political realism barren?: normativity and story-telling
    Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 26 (3): 398-417. 2023.
    Political realism has been criticised for its methodological claims about normativity and for its criticisms of moralism. Realists themselves should be more concerned that for all its methodological wrangling, realists have struggled to produce much positive theorising, rendering realism barren. I argue that realism, in both its liberal and radical forms, is currently barren in the sense of being unproductive, and show how the two dominant forms of realism are barren in different ways. Bernard W…Read more
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    Instability and modus vivendi
    Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 24 (2): 157-178. 2021.
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    Instability and modus vivendi
    Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 24 (2): 157-178. 2021.
    Political theories of modus vivendi start from an assumption of deep and permanent disagreement about conceptions of the good and conceptions of justice. In response to this disagreement, modus vivendi provides an account of legitimacy as a result of a minimally restricted bargaining process. This account of legitimacy faces three major criticisms. Firstly, that the political arrangement will be unstable, secondly that a modus vivendi will institutionalise injustice, and thirdly, that it will in…Read more