Abstract

CABRERA GARCIA, Ernesto. The invention of political realism: An exercise of conceptual history. Sig. Fil [online]. 2014, vol.16, n.32, pp.126-149. ISSN 1665-1324.

This article is a historiographical and conceptual attempt of clarification and delimitation to offer an alternative view to the studies of the realist political theory. I pretend to put forward an outline of the historical sense of the concept of political realism, placing it on the contexts of German Realpolitik and the realist school of international relations. Thus, I pretend to show the contextual relations of political realism, the location of its antagonism against liberalism and the retrospective invention of a realist tradition as a result of a set of intellectual and political additions.

Keywords : political realism; idealism; liberalism; conceptual history; contextualism.

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