@article{24620d8858394563a7c9ffa0738176ed,
title = "The value of genealogies for political philosophy",
abstract = "Genealogies are an increasingly important part of contemporary political philosophy. However, even recent genealogies differ a great deal in terms of their ends and methods. Strikingly, this has received virtually no discussion in the literature. This article begins to fill that gap. It does so by comparing and contrasting the genealogies of Bernard Williams, Quentin Skinner, and Raymond Geuss, exploring their different goals, methods, and value for political philosophy. This helps us better understand these different kinds of genealogy in their own right; shows the distinct value of each of these different kinds of genealogy to political philosophy; and enables political philosophers to better be able to select the kind of genealogical investigation most relevant to their interests and to employ the correct kind of genealogy better as a result.",
keywords = "Bernard Williams, CRITICISM, Genealogy, Quentin Skinner, REALISM, Raymond Geuss, ideology critique, political philosophy",
author = "Janosch Prinz and Paul Raekstad",
note = "Funding Information: We would like to thank the University of Amsterdam for funding the workshop on 27 September 2017, at which earlier version of this paper were presented. We are grateful to the audience for their helpful suggestions, especially to Bernard Reginster, Enzo Rossi, Gulsen Seven, and Eric Schliesser. We would further like two reviewers for Inquiry for their insightful comments. Paul Raekstad{\textquoteright}s research for this essay was supported by the Dutch National Science Organisation{\textquoteright}s (NWO) Vidi project {\textquoteleft}Legitimacy Beyond Consent{\textquoteright} (grant n. 016.164.351). Janosch Prinz would like to thank the Leverhulme Trust for supporting his research with an Early Career Fellowship (ECF-2016-227). Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2020, {\textcopyright} 2020 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.",
year = "2020",
month = may,
day = "13",
doi = "10.1080/0020174X.2020.1762729",
language = "English",
journal = "Inquiry-an Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy",
issn = "0020-174X",
publisher = "Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group",
}