Political thought and political thinkers
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Political thought and political thinkers
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Judith N. Shklar ; edited by Stanley Hoffmann ; foreword by George Kateb.
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Publication Information:
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c1998.
Physical Description:
xxvi, 402 p. ; 24 cm.
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9780226753447
9780226753461
Abstract:
Judith Shklar was for decades one of the most influential professors at Harvard, training generations of some of the best known political theorists working today. She remains one of this century's most important liberal scholars, whose legacy of work testifies to her intellect and her passion for understanding. Political Thought and Political Thinkers brings together twenty-one essays written over her nearly forty-year career. The selection by Stanley Hoffmann includes published material that is difficult to locate as well as unpublished work. Including her classic "The Liberalism of Fear, " these essays develop the major themes with which Shklar grappled and places them against the backdrop of the grim history of the twentieth century. This collection captures Shklar's broad range of interests - from the place of the intellect in the modern political world to the dangers of identity politics - and showcases her distinctive defense of liberalism.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Contents:
Foreword / George Kateb -- Editor's Preface / 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.