04623nam 2200745Ia 450 991080834130332120240416063923.00-19-160110-197866111987701-281-19877-30-19-153383-11-4356-3130-7(CKB)1000000000484032(EBL)3052286(OCoLC)773256387(SSID)ssj0000208829(PQKBManifestationID)11190531(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000208829(PQKBWorkID)10244004(PQKB)10088257(SSID)ssj0000088465(PQKBManifestationID)11130629(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000088465(PQKBWorkID)10072269(PQKB)11525924(StDuBDS)EDZ0000074252(MiAaPQ)EBC3052286(Au-PeEL)EBL3052286(CaPaEBR)ebr10211979(CaONFJC)MIL119877(MiAaPQ)EBC7038508(Au-PeEL)EBL7038508(EXLCZ)99100000000048403220051104d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe nature of political theory /Andrew VincentOxford Oxford University Press20071 online resource (365 p.)Originally published: 2004.0-19-927125-9 0-19-929795-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.""Contents""; ""1 An Eclectic Subject""; ""Foundations""; ""Theory and Politics""; ""Pattern of the Book""; ""PART ONE""; ""2 We Have a Firm Foundation""; ""Classical Normative Political Theory""; ""Institutional Political Theory""; ""Historical Political Theory""; ""Empirical Political Theory""; ""Ideological Political Theory""; ""Conclusion""; ""PART TWO""; ""3 Foundations Shaken but Not Stirred""; ""Logical Positivism""; ""Ordinary Language""; ""A Digression on Death and Putrefaction""; ""Wittgenstein and Essential Contestability""; ""A Reckoning with Essential Contestability""""Conclusion""""4 Bleached Foundations""; ""The Concept of Justice""; ""Conceptions of Justice""; ""Procedural Theories""; ""Social Justice: Desert and Non-Desert""; ""Justice and Mutual Advantage""; ""Justice and Utility""; ""Justice as Impartiality""; ""Sexual Justice""; ""Spheres of Justice""; ""Conclusion""; ""PART THREE""; ""5 Shoring Up Foundations""; ""Conventions""; ""Oakeshott and Conventionalism""; ""Communitarianism""; ""Political Liberalism""; ""Conclusion""; ""6 New Conventions for Old""; ""Nationalism""; ""Neo-Aristotelianism""; ""Republicanism""; ""Conclusion""; ""PART FOUR""""7 Segmented Foundations and Pluralism""""A Word about Pluralism""; ""Liberal Pluralism""; ""Multicultural Pluralism""; ""Difference Pluralism""; ""Conclusion""; ""8 Standing Problems""; ""Nietzsche and the Twilight of the Idols""; ""Heidegger and Humanism""; ""Derrida and Foucault""; ""Rorty and Connolly""; ""Lyotard and the Differend""; ""Conclusion""; ""PART FIVE""; ""9 Dialogic Foundations""; ""The Philosophical Context""; ""Critical Theory""; ""Critical Theory Fulfilled""; ""Positivism and Knowledge Spheres""; ""The Critique of Foundationalism and the Subject""""Universal Pragmatics and Fallibilism""""Discourse Ethics and Deliberative Democracy""; ""Conclusion""; ""10 Circular Foundations""; ""The Hermeneutic Context""; ""Language, History, and Prejudice""; ""Enlightenment and Positivism""; ""Dialogue and Fusion""; ""Ethics and Politics""; ""A Dialogic Confiict""; ""Conclusion""; ""Conclusion ""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""Andrew Vincent here offers a comprehensive, synoptic, and comparative analysis of the major conceptions of political theory throughout the twentieth century. It challenges established views of contemporary political theory and provides critical perspectives on the future of the subject.Political sciencePolitical sciencePhilosophyPolitical science.Political sciencePhilosophy.320.011320.011Vincent Andrew476451MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910808341303321The nature of political theory4028529UNINA