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    Political realism and the realist ‘Tradition’.Alison McQueen - 2017 - Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 20 (3):296-313.
    Appeals to a ‘tradition’ stretching back to Thucydides have been central to the recent emergence of realism in political theory. This article asks what work these appeals to tradition are doing and whether they are consistent with contemporary political realism’s contextualist commitments. I argue that they are not and that realists also have independent epistemic reasons to attend to contextualist worries. Ultimately, I make the case for an account of the realist tradition that is at once consistent with moderate contextualist (...)
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    (1 other version)Political realism and moral corruption.Alison McQueen - 2016 - European Journal of Political Theory 19 (2):147488511666482.
    Political realism is frequently criticised as a theoretical tradition that amounts to little more than a rationalisation of the status quo and an apology for power. This paper responds to this crit...
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    Absolving God’s Laws: Thomas Hobbes’s Scriptural Strategies.Alison McQueen - 2022 - Political Theory 50 (5):754-779.
    Thomas Hobbes tells us that he wrote Leviathan to “absolve the divine laws” of the charge that they justify rebellion. This article interprets the argumentative strategy of the second half of Leviathan in light of this intention. Over the course of his three major political works, Hobbes develops a convergent argument to absolve God’s laws. This strategy of judicial rhetoric relies on using multiple independent claims in the hope that one’s audience finds at least one of them persuasive. This was (...)
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  4. Mosaic leviathan : religion and rhetoric in Hobbes's political thought.Alison McQueen - 2018 - In Laurens van Apeldoorn & Robin Douglass (eds.), Hobbes on Politics and Religion. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.
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    Hobbes’s Strategy of Convergence.Alison McQueen - 2020 - Hobbes Studies 33 (2):135-152.
    In his political works, Thomas Hobbes proliferates arguments and overdetermines his conclusions. This article hypothesizes that at least some of this overdetermination was intentional. It was part of a “convergent strategy” meant to appeal to a broad, diverse, and unknown audience. The article draws on Leviathan to offer evidence for this hypothesis.
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    On Hans J. Morgenthau’s “The Twilight of International Morality”.Alison McQueen - 2015 - Ethics 125 (3):840-842,.
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    Compassion and Tragedy in the Aspiring Society.Alison McQueen - 2014 - Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 13 (4):651-657.
    Martha Nussbaum’s Political Emotions: Why Love Matters for Justice is a rich and engaging work that brings together her theory of emotions with her own strand of capabilities-inflected political liberalism . The result is an empirically-informed, deeply cross-disciplinary, and engaging argument for the centrality of emotional work to the liberal democratic project. In what follows, I offer an account of the book’s theoretical context and its central argument before engaging along more evaluative and critical lines with its treatment of compassion (...)
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    What (If Anything) Is Wrong with Positive Liberty?Alison McQueen - 2020 - Critical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society 32 (4):517-538.
    ABSTRACT Isaiah Berlin’s criticisms of positive liberty are often read as mere artefacts of his Cold War context. But are they good criticisms? This article evaluates Berlin’s three main worries about positive liberty—the inner-citadel worry, the moralization worry, and the tyranny worry. I find that while they may be reasonable worries to have about any concept of liberty, they are not compelling criticisms of positive liberty in particular.
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    Responsible Cosmopolitanism. [REVIEW]Alison McQueen - 2012 - Political Theory 40 (6):839-846.