The Oxford handbook of political theory
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The Oxford handbook of political theory
（Oxford handbooks of political science）
Oxford University Press, 2006
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Political theory
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The Oxford Handbooks of Political Science is a ten-volume set of reference books offering authoritative and engaging critical overviews of the state of political science. Each volume focuses on a particular part of the discipline, with volumes on Public Policy, Political Theory, Political Economy, Contextual Political Analysis, Comparative Politics, International Relations, Law and Politics, Political Behavior, Political Institutions, and Political Methodology. The project as a whole is under the General Editorship of Robert E. Goodin, with each volume being edited by a distinguished international group of specialists in their respective fields. The books set out not just to report on the discipline, but to shape it. The series will be an indispensable point of reference for anyone working in political science and adjacent disciplines. Long recognized as one of the main branches of political science, political theory has in recent years burgeoned in many different directions. Close textual analysis of historical texts sits alongside more analytical work on the nature and normative grounds of political values.
Continental and post-modern influences jostle with ones from economics, history, sociology, and the law. Feminist concerns with embodiment make us look at old problems in new ways, and challenges of new technologies open whole new vistas for political theory. This Handbook provides comprehensive and critical coverage of the lively and contested field of political theory, and will help set the agenda for the field for years to come. Forty-five chapters by distinguished political theorists look at the state of the field, where it has been in the recent past, and where it is likely to go in future. They examine political theory's edges as well as its core, the globalizing context of the field, and the challenges presented by social, economic, and technological changes.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- I. CONTEMPORARY CURRENTS
- 1. Justice After Rawls
- 2. Power After Foucault
- 3. Critical Theory Beyond Habermas
- 4. Feminist Theory and the Canon of Political Thought
- 5. After the Linguistic Turn: Poststructuralist and Liberal Pragmatist Political Theory
- 6. The Pluralist Imagination
- II. THE LEGACY OF THE PAST
- 7. Theory in History: Problems of Context and Narrative
- 8. The Political Theory of Classical Greece
- 9. Republican Visions
- 10. Modernity and its Critics
- 11. The History of Political Thought, as Disciplinary Genre
- III. POLITICAL THEORY IN THE WORLD
- 12. The Challenge of European Union
- 13. East Asia and the West: The Impact of Confucianism on Anglo-American Political Thought
- 14. In the Beginning all the World was America: American Exceptionalism in New Contexts
- 15. Changing Interpretations of Modern and Contemporary Islamic Political Theory
- IV. STATE AND PEOPLE
- 16. Constitutionalism and the Rule of Law
- 17. Emergency Powers
- 18. The People
- 19. Civil Society and State
- 20. Democracy and the State
- 21. Democracy and Citizenship: Expanding Domains
- V. JUSTICE, EQUALITY, AND FREEDOM
- 22. Impartiality
- 23. Justice, Luck, and Desert
- 24. Recognition and Redistribution
- 25. Equality and Difference
- 26. Liberty, Equality, and Property
- 27. Historical Injustice
- VI. PLURALISM, MULTICULTURALISM, AND NATIONALISM
- 28. Nationalism
- 29. Multiculturalism and its Critics
- 30. Identity, Difference, Toleration
- 31. Moral Universalism and Cultural Difference
- VII. CLAIMS IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT
- 32. Human Rights
- 33. From International to Gloabl Justice?
- 34. Political Secularism
- 35. Multi-Culturalism and Post-Colonialism
- VIII. THE BODY POLITIC
- 36. Politicizing the Body: Property, Contract, and Rights
- 37. New Ways of Thinking About Privacy
- 38. New Technologies of the Body
- 39. Paranoia and Political Philosophy
- IX. TESTING THE BOUNDARIES
- 40. Political Theory and Cultural Studies
- 41. Political Theory and the Environment
- 42. Political Theory and Political Economy
- 43. Political Theory and Social Theory
- X. OLD AND NEW
- 44. Then and Now: Participant-Observation in Political Theory
- 45. Exile and Re-Entry: Political Theory Yesterday and Tomorrow
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