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SUMMARY:The relationship between Political Theory and politics
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LOCATION:219 Portobello\, Sheffield\, United Kingdom\, S1 4DP
DESCRIPTION:<p>Time: 10 am-6 pm</p>\n<p>Almost any Political Theory aspires to address itself to a chosen political&nbsp\;context\, to speak to politics\, and to be\, at least in this sense\, political.&nbsp\;Recently thriving debates about &ldquo\;realism&rdquo\; or &ldquo\;(non-) ideal theory&rdquo\; in&nbsp\;Political Theory have taken up this long-standing issue and at least<br>implicitly focus on the following question: how are different strands of&nbsp\;contemporary Political Theory related to politics?<br><br>The answers that these debates have advanced are often offered in terms of a&nbsp\;dichotomy between &ldquo\;idealism&rdquo\; and &ldquo\;realism&rdquo\; and of rephrasing the question as&nbsp\;a problem of application of Political Theory. Is this all there is to say&nbsp\;about the relationship? This question is all the more pressing\, as thinking&nbsp\;about the relationship between Political Theory and its political context is&nbsp\;directly connected to another question that looms large in current debates:&nbsp\;in which senses is Political Theory political?<br><br>This conference intends to further scrutinize this complex set of questions&nbsp\;and the answers that current debates have so far offered.&nbsp\;Papers are invited&nbsp\;to address\, but do not need to be limited to\, the following sets of questions:</p>\n<ol>\n<li>How do different strands of contemporary Political Theory relate to&nbsp\;politics? Which alternative ways are there for Political Theory to relate to&nbsp\;its political context? How does the way Political Theory relates to its&nbsp\;political context shape Political Theory?</li>\n<li>In which senses is Political Theory political? How many different layers&nbsp\;are there to the political of Political Theory? What does this say about the&nbsp\;way it relates to its political context?</li>\n<li>Whilst current debates about &ldquo\;realism&rdquo\; pay more attention to the&nbsp\;presuppositions of different approaches to Political Theory\, i.e. engage in&nbsp\;the 'methodology of Political Theory'\, it seems that relatively little issaid about the methodology and presuppositions used for this kind of&nbsp\;&ldquo\;methodological&rdquo\; reflection. How\, if at all\, is this &ldquo\;methodology of&nbsp\;methodology&rdquo\; related to the ways in which Political Theory is political?</li>\n</ol>\n<p>Deadline for proposals of papers (300 words): 15 February 2013. Please send&nbsp\;questions and submissions to&nbsp\;j.prinz@sheffield.ac.uk</a>. Registration details&nbsp\;to follow in early 2013.</p>\n<p>Contact:&nbsp\;j.prinz@sheffield.ac.uk.</p>\n<p>Lunch and light refreshments will be provided.</p>
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