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