Political Thought and Political Thinkers

- Contents

Editor’s Preface by Stanley Hoffmann
Pt. 1: Learning about Politics
1: The Liberalism of Fear
2: Political Theory and the Rule of Law
3: Obligation, Loyalty, Exile
4: The Bonds of Exile
Pt. 2: Learning about Thought
5: Squaring the Hermeneutic Circle
6: Politics and the Intellect
7: Learning without Knowing
8: Subversive Genealogies
9: The Political Theory of Utopia: From Melancholy to Nostalgia
10: What Is the Use of Utopia?
Pt. 3: Learning about Thinkers
11: Poetry and the Political Imagination in Pope’s An Essay on Man
12: Ideology Hunting: The Case of James Harrington
13: Montesquieu and the New Republicanism
14: Reading the Social Contract
15: Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Equality
16: Jean D’Alembert and the Rehabilitation of History
17: Bergson and the Politics of Intuition
18: Nineteen Eighty-Four: Should Political Theory Care?
19: Rethinking the Past
20: Hannah Arendt as Pariah
21: The Work of Michael Walzer
Index
History: European History
Political Science: Political and Social Theory
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