(w Foucauldians and Derrideans of various stripes making some interesting contributions but disavowing normativity). People joked about my grad program that its diversity encompassed everyone from liberal democrats to democratic liberals, but the field looked a bit like that too.
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(Never so completely as some people thought-- the subfield proper was a lot less like that than the broader world of political theory, political philosophy, and law school-based versions of both. PT and JPP were already starting to look like they came from different worlds. But.)
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There are ways in which it's more interesting to be a centrist liberal democratic political theorist surrounded by integralists and left-Schmittians and socialists dissecting Rawls' corpse. It's more fun to be the Rebels than to be the Empire.
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If only it could be the case that the assault on liberalism from both sides were limited to abstract debate, if it were (to use a phrase I dislike) "merely academic," I might really enjoy this moment. But alas. //
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to what do you attribute that naivete?
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Ideas have their fads and fashions. There are different fads and fashions now.
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I would love to read a Rawls piece on the current state of affairs
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I’d love to talk to you about the viability of liberalism in the digital/late capitalist age. I have, um, mixed feelings.
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You’ll have to start off by explaining “late capitalism” to me.
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