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The Oxford Handbook of Political Theory
Dryzek, John S. Professor of Social and Political Theory, Political Science Program, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University
Honig, Bonnie Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University and Senior Research Fellow, American Bar Foundation
Phillips, Anne Professor of Gender Theory and holds a joint appointment in the Department of Government and the Gender Institute, London School of Economics
Print publication date: 2008 (this edition) Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-954843-9
Published to Oxford Handbooks Online: September 2009




1 Introduction
doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199548439.003.0001

John S. Dryzek
Bonnie Honig
Anne Phillips
Abstract: What is Political Theory? – Contemporary Themes and Developments – Political Theory and the Global Turn – Political Theory and Political Science: Current Trajectories – Organization of the Handbook – Conclusion

Keywords: development, political science, political theory,

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John S. Dryzek is Professor of Social and Political Theory, Political Science Program, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University.

Anne Phillips is Professor of Gender Theory and holds a joint appointment in the Department of Government and the Gender Institute, London School of Economics.

Bonnie Honig is Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University and Senior Research Fellow, American Bar Foundation.
 
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Full Book Contents
I Introduction
1 Introduction
II Contemporary Currents
2 Justice After Rawls
3 Power After Foucault
4 Critical Theory Beyond Habermas*
5 Feminist Theory and the Canon of Political Thought
6 After the Linguistic Turn: Post-structuralist and Liberal Pragmatist Political Theory
7 The Pluralist Imagination
III The Legacy of the Past
8 Theory in History: Problems of Context and Narrative
9 The Political Theory of Classical Greece*
10 Republican Visions*
11 Modernity and Its Critics*
12 The History of Political Thought as Disciplinary Genre
IV Political Theory in the World
13 The Challenge of European Union
14 East Asia and the West: The Impact of Confucianism on Anglo-American Political Theory
15 In the Beginning, All the World was America: American Exceptionalism in New Contexts*
16 Changing Interpretations of Modern and Contemporary Islamic Political Theory
V State and People
17 Constitutionalism and the Rule of Law
18 Emergency Powers
19 The People*
20 Civil Society and the State
21 Democracy and the State
22 Democracy and Citizenship: Expanding Domains*
VI Justice, Equality, and Freedom
23 Impartiality
24 Justice, Luck, and Desert*
25 Recognition and Redistribution
26 Equality and Difference*
27 Liberty, Equality, and Property
28 Historical Injustice
VII Pluralism, Multiculturalism, and Nationalism
29 Nationalism
30 Multiculturalism and its Critics*
31 Identity, Difference, Toleration
32 Moral Universalism and Cultural Difference
VIII Claims in a Global Context
33 Human Rights
34 From International to Global Justice?
35 Political Secularism
36 Multiculturalism and Post-colonial Theory
IX The Body Politic
37 Politicizing the Body: Property, Contract, and Rights
38 New Ways of Thinking about Privacy*
39 New Technologies, Justice, and the Body
40 Paranoia and Political Philosophy
X Testing the Boundaries
41 Political Theory and Cultural Studies*
42 Political Theory and the Environment*
43 Political Theory and Political Economy
44 Political Theory and Social Theory
XI Old and New
45 Then and Now: Participant-Observation in Political Theory
46 Exile and Re-Entry: Political Theory Yesterday and Tomorrow*
Index
 
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