Long recognized as one of the main branches of political science, political theory has in recent years burgeoned in many different directions. Close textual analysis of historical texts sits alongside more analytical work on the nature and normative grounds of political values. Continental and post-modern influences jostle with ones from economics, history, sociology, and the law. Feminist concerns with embodiment make us look at old problems in new ways, and challenges of new technologies open whole new vistas for political theory. This Handbook provides comprehensive and critical coverage of the lively and contested field of political theory, and will help set the agenda for the field for years to come. Forty-five chapters by distinguished political theorists look at the state of the field, where it has been in the recent past, and where it is likely to go in future. They examine political theory's edges as well as its core, the globalizing context of the field, and the challenges presented by social, economic, and technological changes.
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- Introduction
- I. CONTEMPORARY CURRENTS
- 1: Richard Arneson: Justice After Rawls
- 2: Wendy Brown: Power After Foucault
- 3: William E Scheuerman: Critical Theory Beyond Habermas
- 4: Linda Zerilli: Feminist Theory and the Canon of Political Thought
- 5: Paul Patton: After the Linguistic Turn: Poststructuralist and Liberal Pragmatist Political Theory
- 6: David Schlosberg: The Pluralist Imagination
- II. THE LEGACY OF THE PAST
- 7: J G A Pocock: Theory in History: Problems of Context and Narrative
- 8: Jill Frank: The Political Theory of Classical Greece
- 9: Eric Nelson: Republican Visions
- 10: Jane Bennett: Modernity and its Critics
- 11: James Farr: The History of Political Thought, as Disciplinary Genre
- III. POLITICAL THEORY IN THE WORLD
- 12: Richarad Bellamy: The Challenge of European Union
- 13: Daniel A Bell: East Asia and the West: The Impact of Confucianism on Anglo-American Political Thought
- 14: Ronald J Schmidt Jr: In the Beginning all the World was America: American Exceptionalism in New Contexts
- 15: Roxanne L Euben: Changing Interpretations of Modern and Contemporary Islamic Political Theory
- IV. STATE AND PEOPLE
- 16: Shannon Stimson: Constitutionalism and the Rule of Law
- 17: John Ferejohn and Pasquale Pasquino: Emergency Powers
- 18: Margaret Canovan: The People
- 19: Simone Chambers and Jeffrey Kopstein: Civil Society and State
- 20: Mark E Warren: Democracy and the State
- 21: Michael Saward: Democracy and Citizenship: Expanding Domains
- V. JUSTICE, EQUALITY, AND FREEDOM
- 22: Susan Mendus: Impartiality
- 23: Serena Olsaretti: Justice, Luck, and Desert
- 24: Patchen Markell: Recognition and Redistribution
- 25: Judith Squires: Equality and Difference
- 26: Andrew Williams: Liberty, Equality, and Property
- 27: Duncan Ivison: Historical Injustice
- VI. PLURALISM, MULTICULTURALISM, AND NATIONALISM
- 28: David Miller: Nationalism
- 29: Jeffrey Spinner-Halev: Multiculturalism and its Critics
- 30: Anna Elisabetta Galeotti: Identity, Difference, Toleration
- 31: Chandran Kukathas: Moral Universalism and Cultural Difference
- VII. CLAIMS IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT
- 32: Jack Donnelly: Human Rights
- 33: Chris Brown: From International to Gloabl Justice?
- 34: Rajeev Bhargava: Political Secularism
- 35: Paul Gilroy: Multi-Culturalism and Post-Colonialism
- VIII. THE BODY POLITIC
- 36: Moria Gatens: Politicizing the Body: Property, Contract, and Rights
- 37: Beate Roessler: New Ways of Thinking About Privacy
- 38: Cécile Fabre: New Technologies of the Body
- 39: James M Glass: Paranoia and Political Philosophy
- IX. TESTING THE BOUNDARIES
- 40: Jodi Dean: Political Theory and Cultural Studies
- 41: John M Meyer: Political Theory and the Environment
- 42: Stephen L Elkin: Political Theory and Political Economy
- 43: Christine Helliwell and Barry Hindess: Political Theory and Social Theory
- X. OLD AND NEW
- 44: William E Connolly: Then and Now: Participant-Observation in Political Theory
- 45: Arlene W Saxonhouse: Exile and Re-Entry: Political Theory Yesterday and Tomorrow