Oxford Handbooks of Political Science are the essential guide to the state of political science today. With engaging contributions from 51 major international scholars, the Oxford Handbook of Political Theory provides the key point of reference for anyone working in political theory and beyond.

'Under the general editorship of Robert E. Goodin, a large group of intellectually attractive authors has charted the entire field of political science in an unbiased multi-paradigmatic way. Minerva's owl would make a nice logo for this monumental collective work of the Oxford Handbooks: what moves us forward is looking back at what we know.'

Autorentext

John S. Dryzek is Professor of Social and Political Theory at Australian National University. Bonnie Honig is Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University. Anne Phillips is Professor of Gender Theory at the London School of Economics.

Zusammenfassung
Long recognized as one of the main branches of political science, political theory has in recent years burgeoned in many different directions. Close textual analysis of historical texts sits alongside more analytical work on the nature and normative grounds of political values. Continental and post-modern influences jostle with ones from economics, history, sociology, and the law. Feminist concerns with embodiment make us look at old problems in new ways, and challenges of new technologies open whole new vistas for political theory. This Handbook provides comprehensive and critical coverage of the lively and contested field of political theory, and will help set the agenda for the field for years to come. Forty-five chapters by distinguished political theorists look at the state of the field, where it has been in the recent past, and where it is likely to go in future. They examine political theory's edges as well as its core, the globalizing context of the field, and the challenges presented by social, economic, and technological changes.

Inhalt

Introduction
I. CONTEMPORARY CURRENTS
1: Richard Arneson: Justice After Rawls
2: Wendy Brown: Power After Foucault
3: William E Scheuerman: Critical Theory Beyond Habermas
4: Linda Zerilli: Feminist Theory and the Canon of Political Thought
5: Paul Patton: After the Linguistic Turn: Poststructuralist and Liberal Pragmatist Political Theory
6: David Schlosberg: The Pluralist Imagination
II. THE LEGACY OF THE PAST
7: J G A Pocock: Theory in History: Problems of Context and Narrative
8: Jill Frank: The Political Theory of Classical Greece
9: Eric Nelson: Republican Visions
10: Jane Bennett: Modernity and its Critics
11: James Farr: The History of Political Thought, as Disciplinary Genre
III. POLITICAL THEORY IN THE WORLD
12: Richarad Bellamy: The Challenge of European Union
13: Daniel A Bell: East Asia and the West: The Impact of Confucianism on Anglo-American Political Thought
14: Ronald J Schmidt Jr: In the Beginning all the World was America: American Exceptionalism in New Contexts
15: Roxanne L Euben: Changing Interpretations of Modern and Contemporary Islamic Political Theory
IV. STATE AND PEOPLE
16: Shannon Stimson: Constitutionalism and the Rule of Law
17: John Ferejohn and Pasquale Pasquino: Emergency Powers
18: Margaret Canovan: The People
19: Simone Chambers and Jeffrey Kopstein: Civil Society and State
20: Mark E Warren: Democracy and the State
21: Michael Saward: Democracy and Citizenship: Expanding Domains
V. JUSTICE, EQUALITY, AND FREEDOM
22: Susan Mendus: Impartiality
23: Serena Olsaretti: Justice, Luck, and Desert
24: Patchen Markell: Recognition and Redistribution
25: Judith Squires: Equality and Difference
26: Andrew Williams: Liberty, Equality, and Property
27: Duncan Ivison: Historical Injustice
VI. PLURALISM, MULTICULTURALISM, AND NATIONALISM
28: David Miller: Nationalism
29: Jeffrey Spinner-Halev: Multiculturalism and its Critics
30: Anna Elisabetta Galeotti: Identity, Difference, Toleration
31: Chandran Kukathas: Moral Universalism and Cultural Difference
VII. CLAIMS IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT
32: Jack Donnelly: Human Rights
33: Chris Brown: From International to Gloabl Justice?
34: Rajeev Bhargava: Political Secularism
35: Paul Gilroy: Multi-Culturalism and Post-Colonialism
VIII. THE BODY POLITIC
36: Moria Gatens: Politicizing the Body: Property, Contract, and Rights
37: Beate Roessler: New Ways of Thinking About Privacy
38: Cécile Fabre: New Technologies of the Body
39: James M Glass: Paranoia and Political Philosophy
IX. TESTING THE BOUNDARIES
40: Jodi Dean: Political Theory and Cultural Studies
41: John M Meyer: Political Theory and the Environment
42: Stephen L Elkin: Political Theory and Political Economy
43: Christine Helliwell and Barry Hindess: Political Theory and Social Theory
X. OLD AND NEW
44: William E Connolly: Then and Now: Participant-Observation in Political Theory
45: Arlene W Saxonhouse: Exile and Re-Entry: Political Theory Yesterday and Tomorrow