Handbook of Political Theory

The Handbook of Political Theory is a latest addition to the SAGE Handbook collection. As with all of our handbooks this is a definitive and benchmark publication that covers all aspects of a given subject. This handbook is an essential purchase for everyone interested in Political Theroy.

Informationen zum Autor Gerald F Gaus is Professor of Philosophy and Political Science at Tulane University. He is a former co-editor of the Australasian Journal of Philosophy and co-founding editor of Politics, Philosophy and Economics . He is the author of Contemporary Theories of Liberalism to be published by SAGE in October 2002. Chandran Kukathas is Associate Professor at the Australian Defence Force Academy in Canberra. Klappentext `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. Zusammenfassung The Handbook of Political Theory is a latest addition to the SAGE Handbook collection. As with all of our handbooks this is a definitive and benchmark publication that covers all aspects of a given subject. This handbook is an essential purchase for everyone interested in Political Theroy. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 Polit...

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Gerald F Gaus is Professor of Philosophy and Political Science at Tulane University. He is a former co-editor of the Australasian Journal of Philosophy and co-founding editor of Politics, Philosophy and Economics. He is the author of Contemporary Theories of Liberalism to be published by SAGE in October 2002.

Chandran Kukathas is Associate Professor at the Australian Defence Force Academy in Canberra.

Klappentext

`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.

  Inhalt

  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