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Subject(s)

• Political science—Philosophy [Browse]
• Social ethics [Browse]

Editor

• Hanel, Hilkje Charlotte, 1987- [Browse]
• Muller, Johanna M. [Browse]

Series

• Routledge handbooks in philosophy. [More in this series]
• Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy Series

Summary note

The Routledge Handbook of Non-Ideal Theory is essential reading for students and scholars of political philosophy, ethics and political theory and will also be of interest to those studying and researching related subjects such as gender, race and social justice.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Notes on Contributors
• Introduction
• Notes
• References
• Revisiting "'Ideal Theory' as Ideology" 15 Years Later
• Part I: Methodological Challenges
• Chapter 1: Ideal and Non-Ideal Theory: Some Basic Distinctions
• Ideal and Non-Ideal Theory: The Rawlsian Cut
• (Non-)Ideal Theory as Input (Non-)Idealization
• (Non-)Ideal Theory as Output (Non-)Idealization
• Chapter 2: Ideal Theory: An Internal Critique
• Justifying Ideal Theory
• Adequacy Conditions on Theories of Justice
• Optimal
• Complete
• Actionable
• The (In)Adequacy of Rawlsian Ideal Theory: An Internal Critique
• A Precise Specification of Ideal Theory
• A General Specification of Ideal Theory
• Dynamic Ideal Theory
• Chapter 3: Beyond Strict Compliance?: Unpacking the Notion of Nonideal Theory as Partial Compliance Theory
• Ideal Theory as Strict Compliance Theory
• Responding to Noncompliance
• The Subject of Justice in Nonideal Theory
• Outputs of Nonideal Theory
• Is There Such a Thing as Nonideal Theory?
• Conclusion
• Chapter 4: Realistic Prescription
• Nonideal Political Theory?
• Realistic Political Theory
• Is Prescription Realistic?
• Ideology and Distortion
• Normativity and Morality
• Realistic Prescription
• Chapter 5: The Realism Trap: Are Feminists and Antiracists Really Nonideal Theorists?
• The Realism Trap
• Which Facts Matter and How?
• Escaping the Realism Trap
• Chapter 6: What is Non-Ideal Theory?: The Theoretical Is Political
• Non-Ideal Theory and the Status Quo.
• Mills's "Ideal Theory as Ideological"
• Non-Ideal Theory as Emancipatory Ideology Critique
• Chapter 7: Radical Kantian Rational Reconstruction
• Why Bother with Rational Reconstruction?
• Two Strategies of Reconstruction: The Apologists vs. the Radicals
• The Apologists
• The Radicals
• Mills's Concept of Subpersonhood
• Is Radical Rational Reconstruction Even Possible?
• Chapter 8: No Justice without Disability
• Ideal and Non-Ideal Theory
• Counterproductive, Not (Merely) Useless
• How a Narrow Focus Can Lead to Epistemic Injustice
• Towards an Inclusive Reflective Equilibrium
• Chapter 9: Discursive Resistance in a Non-Ideal World
• Non-Ideal Theory as a Methodological Challenge
• The 'Non-Ideal' in Non-Ideal Philosophy of Language
• A Methodological Criterion for Non-Ideal Theory
• The Idealization of Normative Neutrality
• Strategies of Discursive Resistance
• Chapter 10: Non-Ideal Social Ontology and Emancipatory (or Critical) Social Ontology
• Understanding the Social World
• Ideal Social Ontology vs Non-Ideal Social Ontology
• Emancipatory Social Ontology and Critical Social Ontology
• Distinguishing Non-Ideal Social Ontology from Emancipatory Social Ontology
• Burman's Taxonomy of Social Facts
• Part II: Intersections
• Chapter 11: Non-Ideal Theory and Political Realism
• Why Look at Reality?
• How Does Reality Feature in Non-Ideal and Realist Theory?
• How Do Non-Ideal and Realist Theorists Look at Ideals?
• An Idea of Progress
• Bibliography
• Chapter 12: Critical Theory and Non-Ideal Theory
• The Frankfurt School Critical Theory Tradition and Non-Ideal Theory.
• The Epistemic Impossibility Argument
• The Immanent Critique Argument
• Chapter 13: Approaching Global Injustice: Ideal and Non-Ideal Elements in Political Ontology and Political Agency
• From the Model of Society to Types of Peoples
• Ideal and Non-Ideal Theory of Justice in the Model of Society
• Ideal and Non-Ideal Theory of Justice in and between Types of Societies
• From Contractarian Cosmopolitanism to Practice-Based Cosmopolitanism
• Contractarian Cosmopolitanism
• Practice-Based Cosmopolitanism
• Towards Critical Cosmopolitanism
• Chapter 14: Non-Ideal Theory and Global Justice
• The Early Global Justice Debate (1970s-1980s)
• Nationalism and Statism
• The Evolution of Cosmopolitanism
• Critiques and New Methodological Directions
• Chapter 15: Non-Ideal Theory and Resistance
• The Ideal/Non-Ideal Theory Distinction
• Conceptual Idealization
• Factual Idealization
• Moral Idealization
• Impracticality
• Conclusion: Theoretical Turns
• Chapter 16: Migration and Non-Ideal Theory
• Ideal and Non-Ideal Theory in the Political Philosophy of Migration
• Non-Ideal Theory and the Social Sciences
• Open Borders as Non-Ideal Theory?
• Chapter 17: Ability: The Unexplained Explainer
• Ability All Over the Place
• The Argument from Marginal Cases
• The Capabilities Approach
• Possessive Individualism
• The Central Capability of Life
• Chapter 18: Ideal Theory, Literary Theory: Whither Transfeminism?
• Mills on Ideal Theory
• The 1990s Trans Debate
• Prosser and Namaste
• Ideal Social Ontology and Institutions
• Idealized Capacities.
• Strict Compliance
• Silence on Structures of Domination
• Idealized Cognitive Sphere
• Towards a Materialist Transfeminism
• Chapter 19: Non-Ideal Theory and Ignorance
• Non-Ideal Epistemology
• Derivative Approaches and Issues of Idealization: The Standard View of Ignorance and the New View of Ignorance
• More Normativity, Less Idealizations? The Normative View of Ignorance
• Chapter 20: Revisiting the Racial Contract: Race, Ignorance, and Non-Ideal Epistemology
• The Racial Contract and Non-Ideal Theory
• Non-Ideal Epistemology and Reconceiving (White) Ignorance
• Chapter 21: Critical Race Structuralism and Non-Ideal Theory
• Part III: Applied Issues and Contemporary Challenges
• Chapter 22: Social Justice in Times of Crisis
• Crisis and the Circumstances of Justice
• Insulating Emergencies: "Injustice and Justice Have There No Place"
• The Relevance of Social Justice
• Problems of Compounding Injustices
• Upstreaming Ethics
• The Primacy of Justice
• Chapter 23: Social Identity at the Margins: A Decolonial Approach
• Ideal Theory, Non-Ideal Theory, and the Power of Oppression
• Research Methods and Thesis
• A Non-Ideal Theory of Social Identities
• The Subject as a Bargainer
• Highlighting Different Meanings of a Social Identity
• Social Identity as a Process of Navigating Power
• Chapter 24: Non-Ideal Theory and Racial Passing: Anything but Iranian
• Ideal and Non-Ideal Theories
• Iranian American Identity Formation
• Passing
• Objections and Concerns
• Chapter 25: Theorizing Non-Ideal Agency
• Introduction.
• Features of Agency in Non-ideal Theory
• The Agency Dilemma
• Problems of Agency Ascription
• Ameliorating the Agency Dilemma: Reconceptualizing Epistemic, Political, and Moral Agency
• Chapter 26: Only Human (in the Age of Social Media)
• Human Bias and Harmful Algorithms
• Social Responsiveness, Self-Formation, and Imaginal Relationships
• Becoming Heroes and Villains
• Only Human
• Chapter 27: From Predicaments to Pathophobia: Non-Ideal Approaches in Philosophy of Illness
• Illness
• The Heterogeneity of Illness
• The Social Realities of Illness
• Predicaments
• Pathophobia
• Illness, Vulnerability, and Contingency
• Chapter 28: "The Health System Wasn't Built for Us": Medicine and Non-Normative Bodies
• The Ideal Approach to Bodies
• The Body Mass Index (BMI)
• Problems of Using the BMI
• Chapter 29: Epistemic Diversity, Ignorance, and Non-ideal Philosophy of Science
• Agnotology and the Varieties of Ignorance
• Hedgers, Boosters, and the Language of Scientific Communication
• Case Study Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
• Case Study: Puberty Blockers for Trans Youth
• Epistemic Humility in the Social Sciences
• The Ineliminable Impurity of Our Epistemic Goals
• Chapter 30: Evidence in a Non-Ideal World: How Social Distortion Creates Skeptical Potholes
• Scarcity and Surfeit
• From Ideology to Evidence
• Skeptical Potholes
• The Asymmetry Objection
• No Way Out?
• The Need for Non-Ideal Norms
• Self-Stewardship
• Chapter 31: Intuitions and Deference in Non-Ideal Philosophy of Language
• Intuitions and Non-Ideal Philosophy of Language.
• Linguistic Community and Deference.

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ISBN

• 1-04-012081-4
• 1-003-31503-8
• 1-04-012080-6

OCLC

1455140184

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