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Ideal and nonideal theory

Susan Orr (SUNY-Brockport) and James Johnson (Rochester): What’s a Political Theorist to Do? Rawls, the Fair Value of the Basic Political Liberties, and the Collapse of the Distinction Between “Ideal” and “Nonideal” Theory. Robert Jubb (Reading): Norms, Evaluations and Ideal and Nonideal Theory. David Wiens (UCSD): The Best and the Rest: On the Role of Ideals in Comparative Evaluation. Tyler Vanwulven (Georgia State): A Marxian Critique of Nonideal Theory. Alexandre Gajevic Sayegh (UCL): Justice in a Non-Ideal World. Jonathan Leader Maynard and Alex Worsnip (UNC): Is There a Distinctively Political Normativity?

Saad Malook (Punjab): The Post-Rawlsian Political Philosophy: A Critique of the Realist Standpoint. Philip Pettit (ANU): Political Realism Meets Civic Republicanism. Carlo Burelli (Genoa): No Rest for the Wicked: Political Realism and the Inevitability of Conflict. Roberto Frega (CNRS): Democracy and the Limits of Political Realism. Mathias Thaler (Edinburgh): Hope Abjuring Hope: On the Place of Utopia in Realist Political Theory. Eva Erman (Stockholm) and Niklas Moller (KTH): Political Legitimacy for Our World: Where is Political Realism Going?