Description
Book Synopsis`This volume combines remarkable coverage and distinguished contributors. The inclusion of thematic, conceptual, and historical chapters will make it a valuable resource for scholars as well as students' -
Professor George Klosko, Department of Politics, University of Virginia
This major new Handbook provides a definitive state-of-the-art review to political theory, past and present. It offers a complete guide to all the main areas and fields of political and philosophical inquiry today by the world's leading theorists.
The Handbook is divided into five parts which together serve to illustrate:
- the diversity of political theorizing
- the substantive theories that provide an over-aching analysis of the nature/or justification of the state and political life
- the political theories that have been either formulated or resurgent in recent years
- the current state of the central debates within contemporary political theory
- the history of western political thought and its interpretations
- traditions in political thought outside a western perspective.
The Handbook of Political Theory marks a benchmark publication at the cutting edge of its field. It is essential reading for all students and academics of political theory and political philosophy around the world.
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"This volume combines remarkable coverage and distinguished contributors. The inclusion of thematic, conceptual, and historical chapters will make it a valuable resource for scholars as well as students" Professor George Klosko, Department of Politics, University of Virginia"
Table of Contents
PART ONE: APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF POLITICAL THEORY Ideology, Political Theory and Political Philosophy - Michael Freeden History and the Interpretation of Texts - Terence Ball Straussian Approaches to the Study of Politics - Thomas L Pangle Postmodern Approaches to Political Theory - Jane Benett Positive Political Theory - H Donald Forbes PART TWO: POLITICAL THEORIES A Future for Marxism? - Andrew Levine Liberalism, Political and Comprehensive - Jeremy Waldron The Diversity of Comprehensive Liberalisms - Gerald F Gaus Classical Liberalism and Libertarianism - Eric Mack and Gerald F Gaus The Liberty Tradition Conservative Theories - John Kekes Democratic Political Theory - John S Dryzek Discourse Theory - James Bohman Communitarianism and Republicanism - Richard Dagger Green Political Theory - John Barry and Andrew Dobson A Report PART THREE: THE MODERN STATE The Modern State - Christopher W Morris The Political Theory of the Welfare State - J Donald Moon Distributive Justice - Julian Lamont Pluralism and Liberalism - Fred D′Agostino Nationalism and Multiculturalism - Chandran Kukathas New Social Movements - David West Feminism and Gender Theory - V[ac]eronique Mottier The Return of the State Political Theory and International Relations - Chris Brown PART FOUR: THE HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT Ancient Greek Political Thought - David Keyt and Fred D Miller Jnr Pre-modern Chinese Political Thought - Helen Dunstan Medieval Political Theory - John Kilcullen Political Theory of the Renaissance and Enlightenment - Frederick G Whelan Modern Islamic Political Thought - Michaelle Browers European Political Thought in the Nineteenth Century - Raymond Plant Political Thought in Continental Europe During the Twentieth Century - Richard Bellamy, Jeremy Jennings and Peter Lassman English Political Theory in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries - David Weinstein
