This paper provides a critical overview of the realist current in contemporary political philosophy. We define political realism on the basis of its attempt to give varying degrees of autonomy to ...politics as a sphere of human activity, in large part through its exploration of the sources of normativity appropriate for the political and so distinguish sharply between political realism and non‐ideal theory. We then identify and discuss four key arguments advanced by political realists: from ideology, from the relationship of ethics to politics, from the priority of legitimacy over justice and from the nature of political judgement. Next, we ask to what extent realism is a methodological approach as opposed to a substantive political position and so discuss the relationship between realism and a few such positions. We close by pointing out the links between contemporary realism and the realist strand that runs through much of the history of Western political thought.
The article shows (post)Sarmatism as an element of the Polish identity discourse in its community dimension, which mainly takes account of its civilisation and cultural aspect, defined by relations ...with (post)modernity. Although this discourse includes (post)Sarmatism in reflection on the key determinants of collective identity, such as community, Polishness and so on, it generally does so in a simplified manner, not free from prejudices and excessive bias. Liberal thought, which should have the greatest share in shaping the sphere of self-ideas of (post)modern society, shows a clear reluctance towards Sarmatian heritage, which is hardly surprising given its Enlightenment origin. However, one should understand the reasons for this reluctance, taking into account its stricter context, which is determined by the mechanism of programming Polish cultural projects in essentialist codes. Meanwhile, according to the author, the ‘post-mortem’ history of Sarmatism (nineteenth–twenty–first centuries) is part of the pan-European struggle of Tradition and modernity. When set on this plane, (post)Sarmatism can be considered in terms of lack (discontinuation of a specific tradition) and compensation (attempts to work through modernising deficits). The Sarmatian heritage, torn out of the vicious circle of stereotypes, myths and silences, should now be included in the debate on the foundations of Polish civic culture, because it belongs to the contingent (in the liberal sense) history of the Polish habitus, and it is also characterised by the syndrome of un-working (not being discussed in contexts important from the point of view of the struggle of Polish consciousness with what is broadly understood as modernity). It also needs to be made real by being located in the circle of geopolitical discourse. The perspective of the recontextualisation of Sarmatism, which neo-Sarmatism with its essentialist-nostalgic poetics has created in contemporary identity discourse and postcolonial thought with its binary schemas, seems insufficient.
This article interrogates the relationship between two apparently disjointed themes: the consensual presentation and mainstreaming of the global problem of climate change on the one hand and the ...debate in political theory/philosophy that centers around the emergence and consolidation of a post-political and post-democratic condition on the other. The argument advanced in this article attempts to tease out this apparently paradoxical condition. On the one hand, the climate is seemingly politicized as never before and has been propelled high on the policy agenda. On the other hand, a number of increasingly influential political philosophers insist on how the post-politicization (or de-politicization) of the public sphere (in parallel and intertwined with processes of neoliberalization) have been key markers of the political process over the past few decades. We proceed in four steps. First, we briefly outline the basic contours of the argument and its premises. Second, we explore the ways in which the present climate conundrum is predominantly staged through the mobilization of particular apocalyptic imaginaries. Third, we argue that this specific (re-)presentation of climate change and its associated policies is sustained by decidedly populist gestures. Finally, we discuss how this particular choreographing of climate change is one of the arenas through which a post-political frame and post-democratic political configuration have been mediated. Reprinted by permission of Sage Publications Ltd., copyright holder.
El propósito del artículo es analizarla educación como espacio de aparición corfigurador de sujetos políticos para una cultura democrática. Es producto de una investigación de corte documental y ...cualitativa que utilizó el método hermenéutica para el abordaje de las categorías de análisis derivadas de fuentes primarias y secundarias sometidas al análisis de contenido. En él se evidencia que el ejercicio pleno de la ciudadanía solo es posible en la medida en que los individuos gocen de libertades para la deliberación, la crítica y la toma de decisiones, para romper con el paradigma de una educación como fabricación. Se concluye que el sujeto que se educa no es un ser atomizado sin capacidad y posibilidad de acción y discurso y que, por tanto, la «fera educativa debe ser pensada como espacio de aparición en su sentido arendtiano y como tal,farmador de sujetos políticos capaces de juicio, para una cultura democrática que impida el retorno de cualquier tipo de totalitarismo dentro de los regímenes democráticos.
Based on the teaching design centered on “five bases” (i.e., the type-based teaching philosophy, concretization-based teaching objectives, theme-based teaching content, professionalism-based teaching ...strategies, and two-way-based teaching evaluation), the implementation of teaching innovation concerning ideological and political theory course in higher vocational colleges is mainly aimed at creating an online-offline mixed linkage pattern, and using the systematic thinking to carry out the teaching implementation process characterized by “four alls” (i.e., all-member problem investigation, all-around organization model, all-chain production-education integration, and all-process data analysis). On the whole, the implementation of the above-mentioned teaching innovation is committed to promoting the effective aggregation of element units with teachers and students as the common subject, as well as innovating and connecting resource carriers in series with theory as the axis. To this end, the global vision should be used to design the structure of the teaching ecosystem, plan the corresponding operation mode and assessment mechanism, and promote the dynamic and balanced operation of the curriculum teaching ecosystem, with a view to improving quality and enhancing efficiency as well as effectively serving the talent cultivation.
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