What Should Political Theory Be Now?

John S. Nelson is associate professor of political science at the University of Iowa. He has published widely on contemporary issues in political science and political theory.

• Preface Acknowledgments PART ONE: METHOD AND MYTH 1. Natures and Futures for Political TheoryJohn S. Nelson 2. In Search of the Political Object: Beyond Methodology and TranscendentalismJohn G. Gunnell PART TWO: ALIENATION AND ACTION 3. Political Philosophy and Political ActionIra L. Strauber 4. Philosophy and DemocracyMichael Walzer PART THREE: CRITICISM AND CONTRADICTION 5. Political Theorizing in the Late Twentieth Century: Foci, Loci, and AgendasPaul F. Kress 6. Contradiction and Critique in Political TheoryTerence Ball PART FOUR: PERSONS AND PUBLICS 7. What Should Political Theory Be Now?Glenn Tinder 8. Political Theory as Political RhetoricJohn S. Nelson PART FIVE: HIATUS AND HISTORY 9. Nihilism and Political TheoryTracey B. Strong 10. Martin Heidegger and the Metapolitics of CrisisAllan Megill PART SIX: CONCEALMENT AND CONTROL 11. The Dilemma of LegitimacyWilliam E. Connolly 12. Political Theory and the Internal Structures of the Self: Reflections on Where Political Theory Should Be NowJames M. Glass PART SEVEN: POWER AND PRAGMATISM 13. Questions of Power in Political TheoryRichard W. Miller 14. Political Theory and Political Science: The Rediscovery and Reinterpretation of the Pragmatic TraditionCharles W. Anderson PART EIGHT: PRACTICES AND PRINCIPLES 15. Education for Politics: Rethinking Research on Political SocializationJohn S. Nelson 16. What Does It Take to Have a Theory? Principles in Political ScienceWilliam H. Panning PART NINE: SUMMARY AND SUMMONS 17. One Step Backward, Two Steps Forward: Reflections upon Contemporary Political TheoryRichard Ashcraft 18. Does Political Theory Have a Future?Robert Booth Fowler Index