Vocations of political theory / Jason A. Frank and John Tambornino, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Frank, Jason A.

Tambornino, John, 1968-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxvi, 336 pages)

Edition:

New ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Whether challenging the settlement between political theory and political science, whereby theorists stuck to the ""old texts"" and left the ""real world"" to their empirical colleagues, or interrogating the relationship between political theory and political action, these essays expand and elaborate the parameters of political discourse-making their timeliness, relevance, and reach powerfully apparent.

Contents:

pt. 1. Invoking political theory. Political theory : from vocation to invocation / Sheldon S. Wolin

pt. 2. Theorizing loss. Specters and angels at the end of history / Wendy Brown

The politics of nostalgia and theories of loss / J. Peter Euben

pt. 3. Thinking in time. Can theorists make time for belief? / Russell Arben Fox

The history of political thought as a vocation : a pragmatist defense / David Paul Mandell

pt. 4. The politics of ordinary life. Political theory for losers / Thomas L. Dumm

Feminism's flight from the ordinary / Linda M. B. Zerilli

pt. 5. Political knowledge. Conceptions of science in political theory : a tale of cloaks and daggers / Mark B. Brown

Political theory as a provocation : an ethos of political theory / Lon Troyer

Gramsci, organic intellectuals, and cultural studies : lessons for political theorists? / Shane Gunster

pt. 6. Practicing political theory. Reading the body : hobbes, body politics, and the task of political theory / Samantha Frost

Work, shame, and the chain gang : the new civic education / Jill Locke

The nobility of democracy / William E. Connolly.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-9136-3

OCLC:

476094843