Property, Legitimacy, Ideology
A Reality Check
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6386014 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Enzo Rossi (0000-0001-9665-2430, University of Amsterdam), Carlo Argenton (University of Amsterdam) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 83 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 1046-1059 |
| Publication date | 2021-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-3816 • E-ISSN: 1468-2508 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/710781 |
| OpenAlex | W3045596229 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 34 |
| References cited | 45 |
Drawing on empirical evidence from history and anthropology, we aim to demonstrate that there is room for genealogical ideology critique within normative political theory. The test case is some libertarians’ use of folk notions of private property rights in defense of the legitimacy of capitalist states. Our genealogy of the notion of private property shows that asking whether a capitalist state can emerge without violations of self-ownership cannot help settling the question of its legitimacy, because the notion of private property presupposed by that question is a product of the entity it is supposed to help legitimize: the state. We anchor our genealogical critique in recent work on ideology in epistemology and philosophy of language and in current debates on the methodology of political theory. But, unlike more traditional approaches that aim to debunk whole concepts or even belief systems, we propose a more targeted, argument-specific form of ideology critique
Argument (complex analysis · Epistemology · Ideology · Law and economics · Legitimacy · Normative · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Private property · Property (philosophy · Sociology · State (computer science · Human Rights and Development · Land Rights and Reforms · Law · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics
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The radical realist critique of Rawls
Realism against delegitimation
Ideology critique in times of crisis
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Empirical Political Theory
Distinctively political normativity in political theory
Ideology Critique without Morality
Land and Legibility
The libertarian idea
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Legal institutionalism
Varieties of Capitalism
Libertarianism without Inequality
The Problem of Political Authority
Libertarianism without Foundations
There Is No Such Thing as an Unjust Initial Acquisition
Anarchy, State, and Utopia
Facts, Principles, and (Real) Politics
The Routledge Handbook of Libertarianism
Methods in Analytical Political Theory
Antecedents and Consequences of System-Justifying Ideologies
Against the Grain
Economic Action and Social Structure
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The state of the state in anthropology
The Myth of Ownership
Abstraction, Idealization and Ideology in Ethics
Self‐Ownership and Property in the Person
De-Development in Eastern Kyrgyzstan and Persistence of Semi-Nomadic Livestock Herding
Myths about the State of Nature and the Reality of Stateless Societies
Property and Personhood
Truth and Truthfulness
Being realistic and demanding the impossible
Dialectical Anthropology
Contra politanism
How to do realistic political theory (and why you might want to)
Resisting Reality
The State of the Study of the State in Anthropology
Realism in Normative Political Theory
Defending the One Percent
Archaeology, Property, and Prehistory
Seeing Like a State
Property in Economic Context
| Unique citing works | 34 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 6,8 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 34 |