“…Geuss defines realism not, as is common, as the contrary of utopianism, but, rather, as compatible with it. Realism—“by no means necessarily antiutopian”—refers, for him, to “a ‘realistic’ assessment of a situation” that is “not limited, impeded, or distorted by wishful thinking or ideology” (Geuss, , p. 245). It is “a political philosophy that aims to proceed in the most ‘reflective’ possible way—… that works with ideology critique and genealogy and constantly checks its own basic concepts with respect to their possible origin in wishful thinking” (p. 243).…”