Pub Date : 2023-05-02DOI: 10.1177/13684310231170127
J. Zielonka
Russia’s ‘national political identity, which is supported by a large-scale imperial self-image’ provides a strong moral case for supporting the Ukrainian victims of Russia’s invasion, according to Professor Hans-Herbert Ko¨gler (Ko¨gler,
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Pub Date : 2023-05-01DOI: 10.1177/13684310231168551
Matt Dawson
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Pub Date : 2023-05-01DOI: 10.1177/13684310231169581
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Pub Date : 2023-04-27DOI: 10.1177/13684310231168807
M. Kaldor
This essay provides supplementary evidence for Kögler’s thesis. It argues that Putin will have ‘won’ if he succeeds in reducing Ukrainian society to a chaotic, fragmented, violent, long-term social condition that can be characterised as a ‘new war’. The essay describes the combination of the ‘political marketplace’ and exclusivist identity politics typical of new wars and how they apply to Putin’s Russia. It concludes with a proposal for negotiations based on principles, especially justice, instead of or as well as borders.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-26DOI: 10.1177/13684310231170344
Orysya Bila
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Pub Date : 2023-04-11DOI: 10.1177/13684310231165215
I. Chipkin
This article considers what the figure of the Nazi means today, especially in the context of the war in Ukraine. Like Hans-Herbert Kögler, the article considers Nazism as a Russian political discourse, which has to be understood on its own terms. In this regard, the article proposes that for Putin it is unlikely that the Holocaust is Nazism’s main point of reference, but rather the murder and slavery of millions of Slavs and Russians is. In this regard, talk of Nazism is a way of recalling the existential threat that Russians experienced as Slavs.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-11DOI: 10.1177/13684310231164258
P. Wagner
Given the diversity of opinions about whether, how, and towards which end Western societies should defend Ukraine against the ongoing Russian aggression, it would be desirable to spell out clear moral principles and apply them in a contextually adequate way to the situation. This is what Hans-Herbert Kögler tries to do in his contribution to this issue. However, his reasoning remains unclear about the relation between moral philosophy and empirical and historical knowledge about the context of moral action. Furthermore, while he proposes critical-hermeneutic reconstruction as a means to understand the participants in the conflicts, he applies this approach in an asymmetric and insufficiently nuanced way. His view of the conflict as a struggle between democracy and dictatorship about a future world-order is too dichotomic and ignores the history of international law as a practical moral philosophy dealing with situations for which there are no unambiguous principles that could guide action.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-10DOI: 10.1177/13684310231163126
This article contributes to an understanding of the backlash against liberalism by reconstructing the emergence and development of an increasingly influential strand of Anglo-American thought that challenges liberalism, known as postliberalism. The central diagnostic claim of postliberalism is that the two dominant forms of post-WW2 liberalism, market liberalism and social liberalism, instead of being somehow opposed, have coalesced around an all-encompassing sociopolitical project that above all else seeks to maximize individual autonomy. As a result, postliberals hold, the liberal order has become increasingly unable to cultivate the communal resources on which human sociability depends and erodes the values liberalism purportedly defends. The article argues that a central, albeit not necessarily insurmountable, challenge for postliberalism lies in moving from a critique of liberalism to proposed remedies for its perceived deficiencies, without slipping into a political project with clear illiberal rather than merely non-liberal implications.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-05DOI: 10.1177/13684310231164709
Aurea Mota
This article offers a perspective on how the proposed conceptualisation of the idea of displacement can be used to analyse processes of knowledge formation and transformation brought about by the movement of intellectuals in modernity. It develops a theoretical framework that considers the acts of cultural mediation and spatial displacement as key aspects for understanding the structures of knowledge and cultural interpretation produced in the formation of modernity. Making use of historical–sociological tools, it examines biographical information along with the intellectual contributions of two female intellectuals, Flora Tristan (1803–1844) and Nísia Floresta (1810–1855). This contribution seeks to re-address the problem how to understand modernity from a decentred point of view. It procdeds by discussing how the history of modernity and its different cultural manifestations should be analysed with greater attention to practices of mediation and theoretical interpretations as developed by lesser-known intellectuals. Thus, the article also contributes to analysing the agency of women intellectuals in the history of modernity.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-29DOI: 10.1177/13684310231151313
Stefan Müller-Doohm
This essay asks how much of Adorno is present in Habermas’s theory of communicative reason and how far Adorno anticipated Habermas in his linguistic-philosophical reflections. Despite all their differences, Adorno and Habermas agree that a contemporary philosophy must be conceived as a critique of metaphysics, which they develop with different theoretical means. For Adorno’s anti-idealist philosophy of negative dialectics, the ‘fall of metaphysics’ is irresistible, but he continues to reflect whether philosophy must still take account of the need for metaphysics. For Habermas, a modestly reconceived post-metaphysical philosophy, whose genealogy he reconstructs in his late work Auch eine Geschichte der Philosophie, is a placeholder for a theory of practical reason. As a hermeneutic science, philosophy also continues to pursue the task of contributing to human beings’ understanding of themselves and the world. Its role as an interpreter also crucially includes the attempt to translate the unsatisfied semantic elements of religious traditions into secular conceptions. This intention is in line with Adorno’s postulate that theological elements can only be sustained if they are transformed into this-worldly language.
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