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What Should Political Theory Be Now?

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Confronted with the alienation of political theory from the practice of politics, prominent theorists respond in this book to the growing question: What should political theory be now? New and original contributions by such thinkers as Charles Anderson, John Gunnell, Terence Ball, Paul Kress, Ira Strauber, and William Connolly analyze the current malaise in the field and offer remedies for it. Each contribution is at once an argument about what is to be done in political theory and an exemplar of how to do it.Spurred by the Shambaugh Conference on Political Theory, this cross-disciplinary effort addresses two major issues: What is the proper stance for theorizing about politics? What are the priority projects for current political theory? The contributions encompass many of the major themes concerning political theorists today, including criticism as a project for current political theory, dangers in the latter-day disengagement of political theory from politics, theorists' perplexity within and about history, issues of reason, and the relationships among science, theory, and politics. The viewpoints presented are diverse, yet the contributors to this volume are typical of political theorists generally. Almost all share inklings of actual or incipient disasters reaching from politics into theory and vice versa.

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Utgivningsdatum1984-06-30
Mått152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt844 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieSUNY series in Political Theory: Contemporary Issues
Antal sidor607
FörlagState University of New York Press
ISBN9780873956956

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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