- Axel Honneth, <i>The Struggle for Recognition</i>
- Jürgen Habermas, <i>Between Facts and Norms</i>: <i>Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy</i>
- Leo Strauss, <i>Natural Right and History</i>
- Judith Shklar, <i>Ordinary Vices</i>
- Jeremy Waldron, <i>Law and Disagreement</i>
- Robert Paul Wolff, <i>In Defense of Anarchism</i>
- Isaiah Berlin, <i>Four Essays on Liberty</i>
- Lon Fuller, <i>The Morality of Law</i>
- Carole Pateman, <i>The Sexual Contract</i>
- Charles Taylor, <i>Sources of the Self</i>
- Charles Beitz, <i>Political Theory and International Relations</i>
- Ronald Dworkin, <i>Taking Rights Seriously</i>
- Quentin Skinner, <i>The Foundations of Modern Political Thought</i>
- Hans-Georg Gadamer, <i>Truth and Method</i>
- Hanna Pitkin, <i>The Concept of Representation</i>
- James Buchanan and Gordon Tullock, <i>The Calculus of Consent</i>
- Michael Walzer, <i>Just and Unjust Wars</i>
- Michel Foucault, <i>Discipline and Punish</i>
- Robert Dahl, <i>A Preface to Democratic Theory</i>
- Simone de Beauvoir, <i>The Second Sex</i>
- H. L. A. Hart, <i>The Concept of Law</i>
- James Scott, <i>Seeing Like a State</i>
- Will Kymlicka, <i>Multicultural Citizenship</i>
- John Rawls, <i>Political Liberalism</i>
- Bonnie Honig, <i>Political Theory and the Displacement of Politics</i>
- Richard Tuck, <i>Natural Rights Theories</i>
- Sheldon Wolin, <i>Politics and Vision</i>
- C. B. Macpherson, <i>The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism: Hobbes to Locke</i>
- Steven Lukes, <i>Power: A Radical View</i>
- Michael Walzer, <i>Spheres of Justice</i>
- Herbert Marcuse, <i>One-Dimensional Man</i>
- Susan Moller Okin, <i>Justice, Gender, and the Family</i>
- Jon Elster, <i>Sour Grapes</i>
- Alasdair MacIntyre, <i>After Virtue</i>: An Study in Moral Theory
- Joseph Raz, <i>The Morality of Freedom</i>
- Frantz Fanon, <i>The Wretched of the Earth</i>
- Paul Gilroy, <i>The Black Atlantic</i>
- G. A. Cohen, <i>Karl Marx’s Theory of History—A Defence</i>
- J. G. A. Pocock, <i>The Machiavellian Moment</i>
- Judith Butler, <i>Gender Trouble</i>
- Phillip Pettit, <i>Republicanism</i>: A Theory of Freedom and Government
- Elinor Ostrom, <i>Governing the Commons</i>
Abstract and Keywords
Hans-Georg Gadamer’s Truth and Method offers a distinctive account of the human relationship to language and history. The book had a transformative effect on many fields, including political theory. It offers a persuasive hermeneutic theory of what the obstacles to and possibilities for textual interpretation actually are and thus forms an account of the proper practice of political theory that is superior to the rival claims of historicism, Straussianism, or post-modernism. Simultaneously, it offers an account of the relationship of individuals to language-communities that recognizes their significance for cultures and persons without reifying their moral or political value. Gadamer’s account of language points toward openness and democracy rather than identity politics or nationalism.
Keywords: Gadamer, hermeneutics, language, ontology, prejudice, horizon, life-world, dialogue, interpretation, communitarianism
Joshua Foa Dienstag, Department of Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles.
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- Axel Honneth, <i>The Struggle for Recognition</i>
- Jürgen Habermas, <i>Between Facts and Norms</i>: <i>Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy</i>
- Leo Strauss, <i>Natural Right and History</i>
- Judith Shklar, <i>Ordinary Vices</i>
- Jeremy Waldron, <i>Law and Disagreement</i>
- Robert Paul Wolff, <i>In Defense of Anarchism</i>
- Isaiah Berlin, <i>Four Essays on Liberty</i>
- Lon Fuller, <i>The Morality of Law</i>
- Carole Pateman, <i>The Sexual Contract</i>
- Charles Taylor, <i>Sources of the Self</i>
- Charles Beitz, <i>Political Theory and International Relations</i>
- Ronald Dworkin, <i>Taking Rights Seriously</i>
- Quentin Skinner, <i>The Foundations of Modern Political Thought</i>
- Hans-Georg Gadamer, <i>Truth and Method</i>
- Hanna Pitkin, <i>The Concept of Representation</i>
- James Buchanan and Gordon Tullock, <i>The Calculus of Consent</i>
- Michael Walzer, <i>Just and Unjust Wars</i>
- Michel Foucault, <i>Discipline and Punish</i>
- Robert Dahl, <i>A Preface to Democratic Theory</i>
- Simone de Beauvoir, <i>The Second Sex</i>
- H. L. A. Hart, <i>The Concept of Law</i>
- James Scott, <i>Seeing Like a State</i>
- Will Kymlicka, <i>Multicultural Citizenship</i>
- John Rawls, <i>Political Liberalism</i>
- Bonnie Honig, <i>Political Theory and the Displacement of Politics</i>
- Richard Tuck, <i>Natural Rights Theories</i>
- Sheldon Wolin, <i>Politics and Vision</i>
- C. B. Macpherson, <i>The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism: Hobbes to Locke</i>
- Steven Lukes, <i>Power: A Radical View</i>
- Michael Walzer, <i>Spheres of Justice</i>
- Herbert Marcuse, <i>One-Dimensional Man</i>
- Susan Moller Okin, <i>Justice, Gender, and the Family</i>
- Jon Elster, <i>Sour Grapes</i>
- Alasdair MacIntyre, <i>After Virtue</i>: An Study in Moral Theory
- Joseph Raz, <i>The Morality of Freedom</i>
- Frantz Fanon, <i>The Wretched of the Earth</i>
- Paul Gilroy, <i>The Black Atlantic</i>
- G. A. Cohen, <i>Karl Marx’s Theory of History—A Defence</i>
- J. G. A. Pocock, <i>The Machiavellian Moment</i>
- Judith Butler, <i>Gender Trouble</i>
- Phillip Pettit, <i>Republicanism</i>: A Theory of Freedom and Government
- Elinor Ostrom, <i>Governing the Commons</i>
