Subject: Political Science Book Title: Reappraising Political Theory
Reappraising Political Theory
Revisionist Studies in the History of Political Thought
Ball, Terence
Professor of Political Science, University of Minnesota
Print publication date: 1994
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-827995-2
doi:10.1093/0198279957.001.0001
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-827995-2
doi:10.1093/0198279957.001.0001
Abstract:
The book—the second volume of my trilogy Political Theory and the Human Sciences—is divided into two sections. The first and shorter section (Chs. 1 and 2) deals with methodological and interpretive questions and advocates a methodologically `pluralist’ and `problem-driven’ approach to the interpretation and reappraisal of works of political theory. The second and much longer section (Chs. 3–12), applying the method outlined and defended in the first, consists of a series of reinterpretations and reappraisals of thinkers, texts, themes, and topics in political theory.
Keywords: hermeneutics, interpretation, political theory, political thought, texts, thinkers
Keywords: hermeneutics, interpretation, political theory, political thought, texts, thinkers
Table of Contents
Preface
1. Reappraising Political Theory
2. Whither Political Theory?
3. Machiavelli and Moral Change
4. Hobbes's Linguistic Turn
5. Rousseau's Civil Religion Reconsidered
6. The Survivor and the Savant: Two Schemes for Civil Religion Compared
7. Benthamite Discipline and Punishment; Or, What Foucault Missed
8. Utilitarianism, Feminism, and the Franchise
9. Vico and Marx on ‘Making’ History
10. Marx and Darwin: A Reconsideration
11. Constitutional Interpretation: What's Wrong With ‘Original Intent’?
12. The Myth of Adam and American Identity
Bibliography
Index
doi:10.1093/0198279957.001.0001
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