Political Thought and Real Politics: Realism in Historical and Normative Perspective
A Workshop under the Auspices of the History of Political Thought Project,
University Center for Human Values, Princeton University
Friday, February 15th
9:30 a.m. Introduction:
Jan-Werner Müller
9:45 a.m. Ideal and Not-so-Ideal? Consensus, Conflict, and the Question of Legitimacy
Chair: Jan-Werner Müller
Andrew Sabl - Three Faces of Idealism and their Realist Discontents
Carla Yumatle - Political Realism: Pluralism, Legitimacy and Morality
Jörg Schaub - Political Philosophy as Applied Moral Philosophy The Critique of New Realism
11:15 a.m. History, Time, and Place Keys to Realist Political Theory?
Chair: Paul Starr
Richard Bourke - Realism and History
David Lebow - A Deliberative Realism?
Daniel Deudney - Planetary Geopolitics & the Obsolescence of Realism
2:00 p.m. Theory and Practice, Abstraction and Context
Chair: Stephen Macedo
Rahul Sagar - Brute Facts
Katrina Forrester - Political realism: can philosophy help?
Mark Philp - Realism About Acting in Politics
4:00 p.m. Concluding Roundtable: What is Real about Realism?
Chair: Jan-Werner Müller
Danielle Allen
Mark Greif
George Kateb
Paulina Ochoa Espejo