J. G. A. Pocock's republicanism and political theory

A critique and reinterpretation

Bibliographic Data

ID21106947
AuthorsIan Shapiro, Ян Шапиро (0000-0001-6587-1294, Yale University, corresponding author)
Year1990
Volume4
Issue3
Pages433-471
Publication date1990-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCritical Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0891-3811 • E-ISSN: 1933-8007
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/08913819008459613
OpenAlexW2046808470
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited60

A growing sense of the exhaustion of both liberalism and Marxism has fueled a revival of interest in civic republicanism among historians, political theorists, and social commentators. This turn is evaluated via an examination of the normative implications off. G. A. Pocock's account of civic republicanism. Arguing that what is at issue between liberals and republicans has been misunderstood by both sides in the debate, the author shows that the turn to republicanism fails to address the most vexing problems liberalism confronts in the modern world, and that it is and has been compatible with much of what critics of liberalism dislike. He argues, further, that the civic republican view involves an instrumental attitude to outsiders that cannot be justified in today's world and has other unattractive dimensions of which too little account has been taken by defenders and detractors alike

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