Handbook of Political Theory
- 464 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
Handbook of Political Theory
About this book
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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Table of contents
- Contents
- Editors’ Preface
- Contributors and Editors
- Part I APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF POLITICAL THEORY
- 1 Ideology, Political Theory and Political Philosophy
- 2 History and the Interpretation of Texts
- 3 Straussian Approaches to the Study of Politics
- 4 Postmodern Approaches to Political Theory
- 5 Positive Political Theory
- Part II POLITICAL THEORIES
- 6 A Future for Marxism?
- 7 Liberalism, Political and Comprehensive
- 8 The Diversity of Comprehensive Liberalisms
- 9 Classical Liberalism and Libertarianism:The Liberty Tradition
- 10 Conservative Theories
- 11 Democratic Political Theory
- 12 Discourse Theory
- 13 Communitarianism and Republicanism
- 14 Green Political Theory: A Report
- Part III THE MODERN STATE
- 15 The Modern State
- 16 The Political Theory of the Welfare State
- 17 Distributive Justice
- 18 Pluralism and Liberalism
- 19 Nationalism and Multiculturalism
- 20 New Social Movements
- 21 Feminism and Gender Theory:The Return of the State
- 22 Political Theory and International Relations
- Part IV THE HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT
- 23 Ancient Greek Political Thought
- 24 Premodern Chinese Political Thought
- 25 Medieval Political Theory
- 26 Political Theory of the Renaissance and Enlightenment
- 27 Modern Islamic Political Thought
- 28 European Political Thought in the Nineteenth Century
- 29 Political Thought in Continental Europe during the Twentieth Century
- 30 English Political Theory in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
- Index