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Bernard Williams and the possibility of a realist political theory

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ID6260596
AutoresMatt Sleat (0000-0003-2518-6940, University of Sheffield, autor correspondente)
Ano2010
Volume9
Fascículo4
Páginas485-503
Data de publicação2010-10-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEuropean Journal of Political Theory (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1474-8851 • E-ISSN: 1741-2730
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1474885110382689
OpenAlexW2153274907
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas52
Referências citadas12

This article explores the prospects for developing a realist political theory via an analysis of the work of Bernard Williams. It begins by setting out Williams’s theory of political realism and placing it in the wider context of a realist challenge in the literature that rightly identifies several deficiencies in the liberal view of politics and legitimacy. The central argument of the article is, however, that Williams’s political realism shares common features with liberal theory, including familiar normative concerns and a consensus view of the political and political legitimacy, which results in it replicating rather than overcoming the weaknesses that other realists have recognized in liberalism, thereby making it vulnerable to the same criticisms. Though these are taken to be significant problems for Williams’s theory, the purpose of making this argument is not to undermine the prospects for a realist political theory but to indicate obstacles and difficulties that any compelling account will need to address

Argument (complex analysis · Classical liberalism · Context (archaeology · Economics · Epistemology · Law and economics · Legitimacy · Liberalism · Normative · Political methodology · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Realism · Sociology · Systems theory in political science · Law · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Political Theory and Influence · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought

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