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11Political ethics in illiberal regimes: A realist interpretationManchester University Press. 2023.
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17A realist membership account of political obligationEthical Theory and Moral Practice (5): 1-16. 2023.The paper offers a realist account of political obligation. More precisely, it offers an account that belongs to the Williamsian liberal strain of contemporary realist theory (as opposed to a Geussian radical realist strain) and draws on and expands some ideas familiar from Bernard Williams’s oeuvre (thick/thin ethical concepts, political realism/moralism, a minimal normative threshold for distinctively political rule). Accordingly, the paper will claim that the fact of membership in a polity pr…Read more
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12In defence of a liberal realism and a realist political ethics: On Edward Hall’s Value, Conflict, and OrderEuropean Journal of Political Theory 21 (2): 390-398. 2022.This review argues that Edward Hall’s outstanding new book on the political thought of three outstanding 20th-century thinkers – Isaiah Berlin, Stuart Hampshire and Bernard Williams – has three major substantial contributions to contemporary realism: it offers convincing realist interpretations of their oeuvres, extracts inspiring new ideas from their works for future theorizing and provides powerful arguments in defence of a liberal realist position. However, given Hall’s expertise in Williams’…Read more
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20On the edge of anarchism: a realist critique of philosophical anarchismCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy. forthcoming.The article examines whether realist theory should adopt a philosophical anarchist position concerning political obligation. The conclusions are mixed. Drawing on a distinction between strong and weak theories of political obligation (in the terminology of the paper, strong theories are committed to morality-based theorizing while weak theories depart from it), the article argues that philosophical anarchism and realist theory are natural allies against strong theories of political obligation bu…Read more
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15Review of Allyn Fives, Judith Shklar and the Liberalism of Fear, Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2020, 288 pp. ISBN: 9781526147738 (review)Res Publica 28 (1): 223-227. 2021.
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16Tacitus on Political Failure: A Realist InterpretationThe European Legacy (5): 1-16. 2021.This article offers a realist interpretation of Tacitus’s analysis of political failure. Tacitus described the early Roman Empire as a balance between the conflicting and irreconcilable values and interests of the emperor, the army, and the senate. For him Stoic-republican morality in itself—without the intervention of a political standard demanding political agency in every circumstance—cannot provide an all-purpose guide to action. He provides a fine-grained analysis of types of political fail…Read more
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13In defence of a liberal realism and a realist political ethics: On Edward Hall’s Value, Conflict, and Order (review)European Journal of Political Theory (2): 147488512199429. 2021.This review argues that Edward Hall’s outstanding new book on the political thought of three outstanding 20th-century thinkers – Isaiah Berlin, Stuart Hampshire and Bernard Williams – has three major substantial contributions to contemporary realism: it offers convincing realist interpretations of their oeuvres, extracts inspiring new ideas from their works for future theorizing and provides powerful arguments in defence of a liberal realist position. However, given Hall’s expertise in Williams’…Read more
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42Political Obligations in Illiberal RegimesRes Publica 26 (4): 541-558. 2020.The paper is organized around two major, but closely interconnected goals. First, the paper’s principal aim is to offer a normative theory of political obligations that is based on certain insights of philosophical anarchism, theories of associative obligations and political realism. Second, the paper aims to offer a normative theoretical framework to examine political obligations in contemporary non-democratic contexts that does not vindicate non-democratic regimes and that does not exclude pol…Read more
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23Shakespeare between Machiavelli and Hobbes: Dead Body Politics: by Andrew Moore, Lanham, MD, Lexington Books, 2016, xiii+175 pp., $90.00/£60.00 (cloth) (review)The European Legacy 25 (2): 229-231. 2020.Volume 25, Issue 2, February - March 2020, Page 229-231.
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21Shakespeare between Machiavelli and Hobbes: Dead Body Politics: by Andrew Moore, Lanham, MD, Lexington Books, 2016, xiii+175 pp., $90.00/£60.00 (review)The European Legacy 25 (2): 229-231. 2019.Volume 25, Issue 2, February - March 2020, Page 229-231.
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32Aristotle’s realist regime theoryEuropean Journal of Political Theory 19 (2): 228-249. 2018.The ambition of this article is threefold. First, it is to offer a realist reading of Aristotle’s regime theory as it is laid out mostly in Books IV–VI of his Politics. The author argues that Arist...
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17th/18th Century Philosophy |
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Social and Political Philosophy |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |