New paper in @polphiljournal.bsky.social: "Ideal Theory as Fetishism." I argue that we should bring the materialist critique of idealism into methodological debates in political theory - and (as you may guess from the title) that ideal theory is a kind of fetishism in the Marxian sense.
New article in Political Philosophy / @polphiljournal.bsky.social: “Ideal Theory as Fetishism” by Jasper Friedrich (@jasperfriedrich.bsky.social): doi.org/10.16995/pp....