Political Philosophy Versus History? Contextualism and Real Politics in Contemporary Political Thought

By:

Floyd, Jonathan

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York Cambridge University 2011Description: 228pISBN:

9780521146883

DDC classification:

N51 F669

Partial contents:

Part I The challenge of contextualism 11 1 Rescuing political theory from the tyranny of history 13 PAUL KELLY 2 From historical contextuaTism, to mentalism, to behaviourism 38 JONATHAN FLOYD 3 Contingency and judgement in history of political philosophy: a phenomenological approach 65 BRUCE HADDOCK 4 Political philosophy and the dead hand of its history 84 GORDON GRAHAM Part n The challenge of realism 103 5 Politics, political theory and its history 105 IAIN HAMPSHER-MONK 6 Constraint, freedom, and exemplar: history and theory without teleology 128 MELISSA LANE 7 History and reality: idealist pathologies and `Harvard School` remedies 151 ANDREW SABL The new realism: from modus vivendi to justice 177 BONNIE HONIG AND MARC STEAKS Relative value and assorted historical lessons: an afterword 206 JONATHAN FLOYD

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Part I The challenge of contextualism 11
1 Rescuing political theory from the tyranny of history 13
PAUL KELLY
2 From historical contextuaTism, to mentalism, to behaviourism 38
JONATHAN FLOYD
3 Contingency and judgement in history of political philosophy: a phenomenological approach 65
BRUCE HADDOCK
4 Political philosophy and the dead hand of its history 84
GORDON GRAHAM
Part n The challenge of realism 103
5 Politics, political theory and its history 105
IAIN HAMPSHER-MONK
6 Constraint, freedom, and exemplar: history and theory without teleology 128
MELISSA LANE
7 History and reality: idealist pathologies and `Harvard School` remedies 151
ANDREW SABL
The new realism: from modus vivendi to justice 177
BONNIE HONIG AND MARC STEAKS
Relative value and assorted historical lessons: an afterword 206
JONATHAN FLOYD

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