Floyd, Jonathan <br/><br/>
Political Philosophy Versus History?    Contextualism and Real Politics in Contemporary Political Thought 

 - New York  Cambridge University  2011 
 - 228p 
<br/><br/> includes index and biblioraphy 
<br/><br/>Part I   The challenge of contextualism	11<br/>1    Rescuing political theory from the tyranny of history	13<br/>PAUL KELLY<br/>2    From historical contextuaTism, to mentalism, to behaviourism	38<br/>JONATHAN FLOYD<br/>3    Contingency and judgement in history of political philosophy: a phenomenological approach	65<br/>BRUCE HADDOCK<br/>4    Political philosophy and the dead hand of its history	84<br/>GORDON GRAHAM<br/>Part n   The challenge of realism	103<br/>5    Politics, political theory and its history	105<br/>IAIN HAMPSHER-MONK<br/>6    Constraint, freedom, and exemplar: history and theory without teleology	128<br/>MELISSA LANE<br/>7    History and reality: idealist pathologies and `Harvard School` remedies	151<br/>ANDREW SABL<br/>The new realism: from modus vivendi to justice	177<br/>BONNIE HONIG AND MARC STEAKS<br/>Relative value and assorted historical lessons: an afterword      206<br/>JONATHAN FLOYD<br/> 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780521146883  1671 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>N51  / F669