The Political Theory Reader / Edition 1 available in Paperback
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- 02/22/2010
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Overview
- Allows students to see how competing ideological viewpoints think about the same political issues
- Provides readers with direct access to authors covered in the From Ideologies to Public Philosophies text
- Facilitates discussions by having readings arranged thematically throughout text
- Extracts of works specifically chosen to focus on topics central to issues covered in chapters.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781405189965 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Wiley |
| Publication date: | 02/22/2010 |
| Pages: | 384 |
| Product dimensions: | 7.40(w) x 9.60(h) x 0.90(d) |
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Table of Contents
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xiii
1 Political Theory, Public Philosophy, and Pluralism 1
Introduction 1
"What Is Political Philosophy?" Leo Strauss 5
"Political Ideology" Judith Shklar 9
"America's Old and New Public Philosophy" Theodore J. Lowi 11
"Reconstructing Political Pluralism" Avigail Eisenberg 18
"Pluralism: A Prelude" William E. Connolly 21
Part I Ideological Voices 27
2 Nineteenth-Century Ideologies 29
Introduction 29
"The Second Treatise of Government" John Locke 31
National Assembly of France, "The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen" 37
"Reflections on the Revolution in France" Edmund Burke 38
"The Communist Manifesto" Karl Marx Friedrich Engels 40
"Anarchism: What It Really Stands For" Emma Goldman 47
3 Twentieth-Century Ideologies 51
Introduction 51
"State and Revolution" Vladimir I. Lenin 53
"The Philosophic Basis of Fascism" Giovanni Gentile 58
"Why Liberalism Works" Paul Starr 60
"A Case for Conservatism" John Kekes 65
4 Newer Quasi-Ideologies 73
Introduction 73
"America's Search for a New Public Philosophy" Michael J. Sandel 75
"Public Religion and Public Reason" Richard John Neuhaus 79
"Justice, Gender, and the Family" Susan Moller Okin 82
"The Environmental Crisis and the Deep Ecological Movement" Arne Naess 87
"Globalization and Democracy" Michael Hardt Antonio Negri 92
Part II Philosophical Assumptions 99
5 Ontological Conceptions 101
Introduction 101
Plato, "The Theory of Forms" 104
"Ascending and Descending Theses of Government" Walter Ullman 107
"The Great Chain of Being" Ken Wilber 108
"On the General Will" Jean Jacques Rousseau 111
"Marx's Materialist Conception of History" Friedrich Engels 115
"Natural Selection" Charles Darwin 118
"Evolution and Ethics" T. H. Huxley 120
"Contingent Foundations: Feminism and the Question of 'Postmodernism'" Judith Butler 122
6 Conceptions of Human Nature 127
Introduction 127
"St. Augustine's Conception of Fallen Man" Herbert Deane 129
"The Natural Condition of Mankind" Thomas Hobbes 131
"The Early Liberal Model of Man" C. B. Macpherson 133
"Estranged Labor" Karl Marx 137
"Mutual Aid" Peter Kropotkin 140
"The Rationality and Motivations of Parties in the Original Position" John Rawls 142
"The Procedural Republic and the Unencumbered Self" Michael Sandel 144
"Conceptualizing Human Beings" Bhikhu Parekh 146
7 Images of Society 152
Introduction 152
Aristotle, "The Natural Origins of Political Associations" 153
"The Contractual Origins of Society" Thomas Hobbes 155
"The Great Primaeval Contract of Eternal Society" Edmund Burke 158
"Social Cleavages and Complex Equality" Paul Schumaker 160
8 Epistemological Orientations 165
Introduction 165
"The Epistemological Frame: Cartesian Politics" Benjamin Barber 167
"Of the Principle of Utility" Jeremy Bentham 171
"Narratives of the Good Life Guided by Living Traditions" Alasdair MacIntyre 173
"America's Civic Religion: A Hopeful Pragmatism" Richard Rorty 176
"In a Different Voice" Carol Gilligan 180
"Political Constructivism" John Rawls 184
Part III Political Principles 189
9 On Community 191
Introduction 191
"The Federalist No. 10" James Madison 193
"Toward a Theory of Civic Identities" Rogers M. Smith 196
"Towards a Global Covenant: Global Social Democracy" David Held 200
"Human-Scale Democracy" Kirkpatrick Sale 204
"The Chinese Boxes" Robert Dahl 208
10 On Citizenship 211
Introduction 211
"The Distribution of Membership" Michael Walzer 213
"Aliens and Citizens: The Case For Open Borders" Joseph H. Carens 216
"The Development of Citizen Rights" T. H. Marshall 222
"Polity and Group Difference: A Critique of the Ideal of Universal Citizenship" Iris Marion Young 226
"The Responsive Communitarian Platform: Rights and Responsibilities" Amitai Etzioni et al. 231
"The Threat Posed by Corrupt Citizens" Niccolo Machiavelli 236
11 On Structure 238
Introduction 238
"On Liberty" John Stuart Mill 240
"The Principles and Virtues of Free Markets" Adam Smith 242
"Progress and Poverty Without Marx" Lawrence E. Harrison 246
"The Strange Disappearance of Civic America" Robert D. Putnam 249
"The Third Way and Government" Anthony Giddens 251
"Islamic Government" Imam Khomeini 255
"A Letter Concerning Toleration" John Locke 259
12 On Rulers 261
Introduction 261
"Guardianship" Robert Dahl 263
"Speech to the Electors of Bristol" Edmund Burke 268
"Unlimited Power of the Majority in the United States and Its Consequences" Alexis de Tocqueville 268
"A Realistic Alternative to the Classical Doctrine of Democracy" Joseph Schumpeter 271
"Strong Democracy: Politics in the Participatory Mode" Benjamin Barber 275
"What Deliberative Democracy Means" Amy Gutmann Dennis Thompson 280
"Liberalism, Populism, and the Theory of Public Choice" William Riker 283
13 On Authority 286
Introduction 286
"The Conflict Between Authority and Autonomy" Robert Paul Wolff 288
"The Role of Government in a Free Society" Milton Friedman 291
"The Tragedy of the Commons" Garrett Hardin 295
"What Should Government Do?" Benjamin I. Page James R. Simmons 300
"Liberalism and Public Morality" William Galston 306
14 On Justice 312
Introduction 312
APSA Task Force on Inequality and American Democracy, "American Democracy in an Age of Rising Inequality" 313
"A Kantian Conception of Equality" John Rawls 320
"A Capitalist Conception of Justice" Irving Kristol 325
"The Entitlement Theory" Robert Nozick 330
15 On Change 335
Introduction 335
"On Being Conservative" Michael Oakeshott 336
"Movements and Campaigns" Richard Rorty 341
"Letter from a Birmingham Jail" Martin Luther King Jr. 343
"The Neglected Duty" Abd Al-Salam Faraj 346
"Rebellion Beyond Nihilism" Albert Camus 349