How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Political Normativity

Kreutz, Adrian; Rossi, Enzo

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“…Though it criticizes the duty of rescue, it still does so from a decisively moral point of view. 3 Whether this means that nonmoral normativity needs to be political or whether there can also be other forms of nonmoral normativity is currently a point of debate (Jubb 2019;Kreutz and Rossi 2022). In my view, these two positions are not mutually exclusive.…”

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confidence: 93%

Morality in the Refugee Regime? Arguing for More (Political) Realism in Admitting Refugees

Bender

2024

Perspect. polit.

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Refugees drown, are beaten, and are pushed back at the borders of the states of the Global North. Moral outrage is understandable in the face of such treatment. But does it constitute a good political theory? Can morality supply us with good normative arguments for a political world? In this article, I argue that they cannot. Drawing on political realism, I show why moral arguments for admitting refugees fail. What we require is not the extrapolation of moral arguments onto a political world, but a new form of political normativity that is derived from how politics works. I show that refugeehood possesses a specific political function in international politics. States do not admit refugees based on humanitarian reasons. This is what moral arguments get wrong. Rather, they fulfill the political function of condemning and embarrassing other states, of building oppositional and military forces to undermine rival political systems both ideologically and materially. In other words, they play an important political role—a role that allows us to build normative arguments from within a political and not a moral understanding of the world.

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Morality in the Refugee Regime? Arguing for More (Political) Realism in Admitting Refugees

Bender

2024

Perspect. polit.

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“…However, these criticisms miss their target: RIC was never intended to supplant other ways of doing political theory. Aytac and Rossi grant that “insofar as definitive, action guiding condemnation of a social order is desirable, we envisage a division of labor between ideology critique and other branches of political theory,” a vision which the realist ideology critic Adrian Kreutz also shares (Aytac & Rossi, 2022, p. 11; Rossi & Kreutz, 2022, p. 7). As Rossi and Argenton put it, “there is a role for genealogical ideology critique within normative political theory” (Rossi & Argenton, 2021, p. 1058).…”

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Moderate realist ideology critique

Clark

2024

European J of Philosophy

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Realist ideology critique (RIC) is a strand of political realism recently developed in response to concerns that realism is biased toward the status quo. RIC aims to debunk an individual's belief that a social institution is legitimate by revealing that the belief is caused by that very same institution. Despite its growing prominence, RIC has received little critical attention. In this article, I buck this trend. First, I improve on contemporary accounts of RIC by clarifying its status and the role of motivated reasoning. Second, I show that realist ideology critics face a dilemma: either their account makes deeply implausible epistemological assumptions, or they temper its epistemology at the expense of rendering it toothless. I argue for each horn in turn before revealing the dilemma to be a false one by making a novel distinction between varying strengths of RIC based on their underlying epistemological assumptions. I propose Moderate RIC as a solution: upon discovering that one reason for your belief that a social institution is legitimate is likely malignantly epistemically circular, the belief should undergo further epistemic testing. I respond to three potential objections and suggest that Moderate RIC would make a fruitful addition to political theorists' methodological toolkit.

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“…The paper will hopefully generate further discussion on how to uncover the latent political functions of everyday practices in social and economic institutions. In this way, the argument advances the political realist ambition to center normative theorizing around real-world actors’ actions and interests (Bagg 2022; Burelli and Destri 2022; Cross 2022; Kreutz and Rossi 2022; Raekstad 2022).…”

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In Defense of Shirking in Capitalist Firms: Worker Resistance vs. Managerial Power

Aytac

2023

Political Theory

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Shirking, the act of avoiding the demands of one’s job, is generally seen as unethical. Drawing on empirical evidence from the sociology of work, I develop a normative conception of shirking as a form of worker resistance against illegitimate managerial power. In doing so, I present a new approach to the political theory of the firm, which is more adversarial and agent-centered than available alternatives. It is more adversarial as it recognizes the political value of counterproductive and disruptive behavior in capitalist firms. It is more agent-centered because it theorizes the firm from the perspective of workers, asking what pro tanto reasons they have to shirk. I show that shirking under the structural domination of capitalism has diagnostic, agential, and epistemic values. The paper contributes to the wider methodological ambition to tailor political theorizing to the positionality of social actors by shifting attention from the institutional design of the firm to the methods of worker resistance.

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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Political Normativity

Cited by 9 publications

References 26 publications

Morality in the Refugee Regime? Arguing for More (Political) Realism in Admitting Refugees

Morality in the Refugee Regime? Arguing for More (Political) Realism in Admitting Refugees

Moderate realist ideology critique

In Defense of Shirking in Capitalist Firms: Worker Resistance vs. Managerial Power

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