Gerald F Gaus & Chandran Kukathas 
Handbook of Political Theory [PDF ebook] 

`This volume combines remarkable coverage and distinguished contributors. The inclusion of thematic, conceptual, and historical chapters will make it a valuable resource for scholars as well as students′ –

Professor George Klosko, Department of Politics, University of Virginia

This major new Handbook provides a definitive state-of-the-art review to political theory, past and present. It offers a complete guide to all the main areas and fields of political and philosophical inquiry today by the world′s leading theorists.

The Handbook is divided into five parts which together serve to illustrate:

– the diversity of political theorizing

– the substantive theories that provide an over-aching analysis of the nature/or justification of the state and political life

– the political theories that have been either formulated or resurgent in recent years

– the current state of the central debates within contemporary political theory

– the history of western political thought and its interpretations

– traditions in political thought outside a western perspective.

The Handbook of Political Theory marks a benchmark publication at the cutting edge of its field. It is essential reading for all students and academics of political theory and political philosophy around the world.

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PART ONE: APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF POLITICAL THEORY

Ideology, Political Theory and Political Philosophy – Michael Freeden

History and the Interpretation of Texts – Terence Ball

Straussian Approaches to the Study of Politics – Thomas L Pangle

Postmodern Approaches to Political Theory – Jane Benett

Positive Political Theory – H Donald Forbes

PART TWO: POLITICAL THEORIES

A Future for Marxism? – Andrew Levine

Liberalism, Political and Comprehensive – Jeremy Waldron

The Diversity of Comprehensive Liberalisms – Gerald F Gaus

Classical Liberalism and Libertarianism – Eric Mack and Gerald F Gaus

The Liberty Tradition

Conservative Theories – John Kekes

Democratic Political Theory – John S Dryzek

Discourse Theory – James Bohman

Communitarianism and Republicanism – Richard Dagger

Green Political Theory – John Barry and Andrew Dobson

A Report

PART THREE: THE MODERN STATE

The Modern State – Christopher W Morris

The Political Theory of the Welfare State – J Donald Moon

Distributive Justice – Julian Lamont

Pluralism and Liberalism – Fred D′Agostino

Nationalism and Multiculturalism – Chandran Kukathas

New Social Movements – David West

Feminism and Gender Theory – V[ac]eronique Mottier

The Return of the State

Political Theory and International Relations – Chris Brown

PART FOUR: THE HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT

Ancient Greek Political Thought – David Keyt and Fred D Miller Jnr

Pre-modern Chinese Political Thought – Helen Dunstan

Medieval Political Theory – John Kilcullen

Political Theory of the Renaissance and Enlightenment – Frederick G Whelan

Modern Islamic Political Thought – Michaelle Browers

European Political Thought in the Nineteenth Century – Raymond Plant

Political Thought in Continental Europe During the Twentieth Century – Richard Bellamy, Jeremy Jennings and Peter Lassman

English Political Theory in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries – David Weinstein