Dr. P.A. (Paul) Raekstad
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Programme group: Challenges to Democratic Representation
Visiting address
- Nieuwe Achtergracht 166
Postal address
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Postbus 15578
1001 NB Amsterdam
Contact details
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Information
Paul Raekstad works on methodological questions in political philosophy and theory (especially realism and utopianism), democracy, future economic institutions, and how to bring them about. He also has particualr interests in critical theory, the history of ideas, Marxism, an anarchism.
Much of his work can be found here:
http://amsterdam.academia.edu/PaulRaekstad
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Publications
2024
Prinz, J., & Raekstad, P. (2024). The value of genealogies for political philosophy. Inquiry : an Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy, 67(7), 2084-2103. https://doi.org/10.1080/0020174X.2020.1762729 [details]- Raekstad, P. (2024). The radical realist critique of Rawls: a reconstruction and response. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 27(2), 183-205. https://doi.org/10.1080/13698230.2021.1891377 [details]
2023
- Muldoon, J., & Raekstad, P. (2023). Algorithmic domination in the gig economy. European Journal of Political Theory, 22(4), 587-607. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/14748851221082078 [details]
2022
- Raekstad, P. (2022). Karl Marx's Realist Critique of Capitalism: Freedom, Alienation, and Socialism. (Marx, Engels, and Marxisms). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06353-4 [details]
- Raekstad, P. (2022). Freedom, Socialism, and Property-Owning Democracy. Journal of Applied Philosophy, 39(4), 664-681. https://doi.org/10.1111/japp.12582 [details]
- Raekstad, P., & Rossi, E. (2022). Radicalizing Rights: Basic Liberties and Direct Action. Political Studies Review, 20(3), 353-365. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/1478929920984616 [details]
- Williams, A., & Raekstad, P. (2022). Surveillance Capitalism or Information Republic? Journal of Applied Philosophy, 39(3), 421-440. https://doi.org/10.1111/japp.12570 [details]
2021
- Raekstad, P. (2021). Adam Smith: Radical Neo-Roman and Moderate Realist. Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, 103(1), 70-92. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1515/agph-2017-0044 [details]
- Raekstad, P. (2021). The model of the legislator: Political theory, policy, and realist utopianism. Contemporary Political Theory, 20(4), 727-748. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41296-021-00469-x [details]
2020
- Raekstad, P. (2020). Property-owning democracy as an alternative to capitalism. European Journal of Political Theory, 19(4), 614-622. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/1474885117725900 [details]
- Raekstad, P. (2020). Realism, Utopianism and Human Rights. Political Studies Review, 18(4), 542-552. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/1478929919868596 [details]
- Raekstad, P. (2020). The new democracy: anarchist or populist? Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 23(7), 931-942. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/13698230.2019.1585151 [details]
- Raekstad, P. A. (2020). The Present and Future of Political Realism: [Review of: M. Sleat (2018) Politics Recovered: Realist Thought in Theory and Practice; R. Sagar and A. Sabl (2018) Realism in Political Theory]. Res Publica, 26(2), 293-297. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11158-019-09438-z [details]
2018
- Raekstad, P. (2018). Human development and alienation in the thought of Karl Marx. European Journal of Political Theory, 17(3), 300-323. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/1474885115613735 [details]
- Raekstad, P. (2018). Realism, Utopianism, and Radical Values. European journal of philosophy, 26(1), 145-168. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejop.12193 [details]
- Raekstad, P. (2018). Revolutionary practice and prefigurative politics: A clarification and defense. Constellations, 25(3), 359-372. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8675.12319 [details]
2017
- Raekstad, P. (2017). Democracy, the Party, and Self-Emancipation. Critique : journal of socialist theory, 45(4), 599-611. https://doi.org/10.1080/03017605.2017.1379150 [details]
- Raekstad, P. (2017). The Democratic Theory of the Early Marx. Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, 99(4), 443-464. https://doi.org/10.1515/agph-2017-0021 [details]
- Raekstad, P. (2017). [Review of: W.C. Roberts (2017) Marx’s Inferno: The Political Theory of Capital]. Disputatio, IX(44), 127-130. [details]
- Raekstad, P. A. (2017). John Rawls’ venstreliberalisme. In O. Dybedahl, S. Hverven, O. Innset, & M. Kristjánsson (Eds.), Ingen mennesker er født frie: Kritikk av liberalismen Oslo: Dreyers Forlag.
2020
- Raekstad, P. (2020). Political uses of Utopia: New Marxist, anarchist, and radical democratic perspectives: [Review of: S.D. Chrostowska, J.D. Ingram (2017) Political Uses of Utopia : New Marxist, Anarchist, and Radical Democratic Perspectives]. Contemporary Political Theory, 19(S1), S75-S78. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41296-018-00287-8 [details]
- Raekstad, P. (2020). [Review of: D. Swain (2019) None So Fit to Break the Chains: Marx’s Ethics of Self-Emancipation]. The Marx and Philosophy Review of Books, 2020. https://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/18313_none-so-fit-to-break-the-chains-marxs-ethics-of-self-emancipation-by-dan-swain-reviewed-by-paul-raekstad/ [details]
2019
- Raekstad, P. (2019). Micropolitics and Social Change: Deleuze and Guattari for Anarchist Theory and Practice. In C. G. Van Heerden, & A. Eloff (Eds.), Deleuze and Anarchism (pp. 65-81). (Deleuze Connections). Edinburgh University Press. [details]
2017
- Raekstad, P. (2017). From Democracy to Socialism: Then and Now. In L. Panitch, & G. Albo (Eds.), Rethinking democracy (pp. 263-274). (Socialist Register; Vol. 54 (2018)). Merlin Press. http://www.socialistregister.com/index.php/srv/article/view/28595#.Wmc1c_mnFGE [details]
Journal editor
- Raekstad, P. A. (member of editorial board) (2016-2021). Studies in Marxism (Journal).
Others
- Raekstad, P. A. (organiser) (2017). Genealogy and Political Theory, Amsterdam (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
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Ancillary activities
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Prinz, J., & Raekstad, P. (2024). The value of genealogies for political philosophy. Inquiry : an Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy, 67(7), 2084-2103.