TY - JOUR TI - Liberal incorporations: Kymlicka, Pettit and the grammar of hegemony AU - Anili, Bruno T2 - Journal of Political Ideologies AB - A liberal koine operates in much of the West today as the dominant political ideology. Liberalism does not simply defeat and oust rival positions from the political field; rather, it encapsulates some of their claims in order to make them compatible with its core beliefs. The incorporation of non-liberal themes into liberal discourse functions primarily at the level of the deep structures of language. Here I examine two texts that appear to conform to the canons of liberal discourse without articulating canonical liberal themes. First, I present Will Kymlicka's reflection on the ‘right to culture’ as a patent illustration of liberalism's ability to co-opt non-liberal themes (communitarian, in this case) into its own framework. Then, I analyse Philip Pettit's theorization of ‘neo-republicanism’, and argue that his definition of liberty as non-domination ends up justifying liberalism's conception of the political as merely instrumental to the preservation of individual liberty. DA - 2013/// PY - 2013 DO - 10.1080/13569317.2012.750169 DP - Taylor and Francis+NEJM VL - 18 IS - 1 SP - 11 EP - 33 LA - English SN - 1356-9317 ST - Liberal incorporations UR - http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13569317.2012.750169 Y2 - 2013/03/17/22:36:34 ER -