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Analytic Philosophy as Philosophical Activism

From the book The Political Turn in Analytic Philosophy

  • David Bordonaba-Plou , Víctor Fernández-Castro and José R. Torices

Abstract

This chapter characterizes the idea of the political turn in analytic philosophy. It first examines possible connections between analytic philosophy and politics, situating analytic feminism as the precursor of the turn.We then consider some of the attempts that have been made in analytic philosophy to make explicit the political turn. Specifically, we explore whether the ideal/non-ideal theory distinction serves to elucidate what is distinctive about the political turn, concluding that this distinction is of little help in undertaking such a task. Finally, we propose to characterize the political turn as philosophical activism. That is, the political turn is committed to understanding and identifying particular forms of social injustice and intervening to eradicate them.

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