Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Leslie Paul Thiele sets out the scope and methods of political theory, understood as a tradition of historical, normative, interpretative, and analytic thought concerned with the nature of collective human life. He provides a survey of the discipline and its major figures, and he approaches the tradition from various points of view that engage readers in independent political thought.
Table of Contents
Theory and vision -- The question of human nature -- Politics, power, and the public good -- Modernity and postmodernity -- Identity and difference -- Statecraft and soulcraft -- Ideology and irony.