Political theory has been described as an 'enterprise of discovery' that carries within it the danger of utopianism. This article explores one aspect of that danger the question of the paradoxical or circular nature of much political thinking. This seems to be both a necessary and an impossible feature of such theorizing. Political theory itself seems to require an idea of utopia that is, by definition, impossible to achieve
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The thesis of this paper is that utopianism is a theoretical necessity—we couldn’t, for example, eng...
The dissertation investigates political philosophy’s practical function by focusing on its concerns ...
In the context of global problems such as the economic downturn, escalating inequality, terrorism, r...
Political theory has been described as an 'enterprise of discovery' that carries within it the dange...
What are the philosophical problems of political utopianism? Primarily, what is the nature of a phil...
Contemporary politics is often said to lack utopias. For prevailing understandings of the practical ...
This article interrogates the form of the relationship between political theory and utopia through a...
In this essay, I critically engage with a methodological approach in contemporary political theory —...
This article describes the construct of utopia, examples of the construct, the common political cons...
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"In this paper I address, in a preliminary way, a problem of political theory that, while not new, h...
This article aims to reinvigorate the utopian imagination as a vital and necessary component in IR t...
“Ideal theorists” in contemporary liberal political theory argue that we can only arrive at a concep...
The article deals with the problem of the influence of Utopian thinking on social and political life...
This is a thesis about feasibility constraints for normative political theories. Political theorists...
The thesis of this paper is that utopianism is a theoretical necessity—we couldn’t, for example, eng...
The dissertation investigates political philosophy’s practical function by focusing on its concerns ...
In the context of global problems such as the economic downturn, escalating inequality, terrorism, r...
Political theory has been described as an 'enterprise of discovery' that carries within it the dange...
What are the philosophical problems of political utopianism? Primarily, what is the nature of a phil...
Contemporary politics is often said to lack utopias. For prevailing understandings of the practical ...
This article interrogates the form of the relationship between political theory and utopia through a...
In this essay, I critically engage with a methodological approach in contemporary political theory —...
This article describes the construct of utopia, examples of the construct, the common political cons...
In this paper I will explore the paradoxical relationship between anarchism and utopianism, and exam...
"In this paper I address, in a preliminary way, a problem of political theory that, while not new, h...
This article aims to reinvigorate the utopian imagination as a vital and necessary component in IR t...
“Ideal theorists” in contemporary liberal political theory argue that we can only arrive at a concep...
The article deals with the problem of the influence of Utopian thinking on social and political life...
This is a thesis about feasibility constraints for normative political theories. Political theorists...
The thesis of this paper is that utopianism is a theoretical necessity—we couldn’t, for example, eng...
The dissertation investigates political philosophy’s practical function by focusing on its concerns ...
In the context of global problems such as the economic downturn, escalating inequality, terrorism, r...
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