Abstract
There is something amiss about post-Rawlsian efforts to bring political theory down to earth by insisting upon the political primacy of the question of legitimacy, peace, or order. The intuition driving much realism seems to be that we must first agree to get along, and only then can we get down to the business of pursuing justice. I argue that the ideological narratives of the powerful pose a political problem for this primacy of legitimacy thesis. To prioritize the achievement of democratic legitimacy seems to make sense only to the extent that we already live in a world in which systematic domination—and its ideological baggage—has been stamped out. I draw on the social study of domination for the sake of combatting in political theory the temptation to focus on the static design of the constitutional state at the expense of ignoring or even condemning the social processes that motivate legal and constitutional changes.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Liberalism and Social Theory after John Rawls
- Durkheimian Thoughts on In the Shadow of Justice
- Capitalism, Justice, and the Boundaries of Liberalism
- Whose Realism? Which Legitimacy? Ideologies of Domination and Post-Rawlsian Political Theory
- How to Do Things with Justice: Professor Rawls, 1962–1971
- John Rawls and R. M. Hare: A Study of Canonization
- General Part
- International Relations Theory and the Ukrainian War
- Discussion
- Does Post-truth Expand or Restrict Political Choice? Politics, Planning, and Expertise in a Post-truth Environment
- Symmetry in World-Historic Perspective: Reply to Lynch
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Liberalism and Social Theory after John Rawls
- Durkheimian Thoughts on In the Shadow of Justice
- Capitalism, Justice, and the Boundaries of Liberalism
- Whose Realism? Which Legitimacy? Ideologies of Domination and Post-Rawlsian Political Theory
- How to Do Things with Justice: Professor Rawls, 1962–1971
- John Rawls and R. M. Hare: A Study of Canonization
- General Part
- International Relations Theory and the Ukrainian War
- Discussion
- Does Post-truth Expand or Restrict Political Choice? Politics, Planning, and Expertise in a Post-truth Environment
- Symmetry in World-Historic Perspective: Reply to Lynch