Preface
Acknowledgments
PART ONE: METHOD AND MYTH
1. Natures and Futures for Political Theory
John S. Nelson
2. In Search of the Political Object: Beyond Methodology and Transcendentalism
John G. Gunnell
PART TWO: ALIENATION AND ACTION
3. Political Philosophy and Political Action
Ira L. Strauber
4. Philosophy and Democracy
Michael Walzer
PART THREE: CRITICISM AND CONTRADICTION
5. Political Theorizing in the Late Twentieth Century: Foci, Loci, and Agendas
Paul F. Kress
6. Contradiction and Critique in Political Theory
Terence Ball
PART FOUR: PERSONS AND PUBLICS
7. What Should Political Theory Be Now?
Glenn Tinder
8. Political Theory as Political Rhetoric
John S. Nelson
PART FIVE: HIATUS AND HISTORY
9. Nihilism and Political Theory
Tracey B. Strong
10. Martin Heidegger and the Metapolitics of Crisis
Allan Megill
PART SIX: CONCEALMENT AND CONTROL
11. The Dilemma of Legitimacy
William E. Connolly
12. Political Theory and the Internal Structures of the Self: Reflections on Where Political Theory Should Be Now
James M. Glass
PART SEVEN: POWER AND PRAGMATISM
13. Questions of Power in Political Theory
Richard W. Miller
14. Political Theory and Political Science: The Rediscovery and Reinterpretation of the Pragmatic Tradition
Charles W. Anderson
PART EIGHT: PRACTICES AND PRINCIPLES
15. Education for Politics: Rethinking Research on Political Socialization
John S. Nelson
16. What Does It Take to Have a Theory? Principles in Political Science
William H. Panning
PART NINE: SUMMARY AND SUMMONS
17. One Step Backward, Two Steps Forward: Reflections upon Contemporary Political Theory
Richard Ashcraft
18. Does Political Theory Have a Future?
Robert Booth Fowler
Index