...The introduction defines philanthropy and explains its significance for normative political theory and for democracy. It introduces three conceptual claims that inform the rest of the book. First, theories of philanthropy must be political, not only ethical: they should address political structures...

... democratic politics help us strike a balance between the need to pass judgment and the need to remain tolerant? Their answers exemplify how the sometimes rarefied worlds of political theory, philosophy, theology, and history can illuminate pressing contemporary concerns....

...This chapter reevaluates Ernst Cassirer's The Myth of the State and its legacy in modern political theory. It suggests that while Cassirer had contributed to the epochal discovery of myth as a “new force” in political reality, he failed to realize the full meanings and implications...

... century North American Indigenous anticolonial theorists. It frames these as political theories of Indigenous decolonization, which envision independence in inheriting, reinventing, and actively making Indigenous societies’ political outlooks. The introduction then explains three key conceptual rubrics...

... by focusing the project of “decolonizing political theory” on anticolonial critique that stems from the situated dilemmas of theorizing in (anti)colonial contexts. Third, it addresses some of the obstacles to overcoming sovereignty, both as statist colonial domination and as a fantasy of self-sufficient...

... of different disciplines. This is certainly true in political theory, so much so that one can even reconstruct something like a “standard received version” of Weimar political thought and its influence. Partly as a result of repetition, it is more difficult now to narrate this standard received version...

... between respect and social justice that permeates egalitarian political theory is the basis of the liberal respect paradox. compromise democracy respect Trump Donald and Trump voters equality and egalitarianism justice McTernan Emily tolerance Anderson Elizabeth conservatives and conservatism...

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...The introduction situates the book's claims about sovereignty in relation to medieval political theory. It maps various understandings of legitimate power and sovereignty over others in medieval political theory and also notes debates about the notion of the state in modern understandings...

...This chapter moves into late twentieth century political theory, rendering explicit the implications of the mathematical political imaginary explored earlier. Lacan viewed mathematical formalism as the “goal” of psychoanalysis, specifically as its political consummation. What enables math to figure...

...This chapter highlights the importance of bridging gaps among the various disciplines and fields of peace research, religious studies, and political theory. This multidisciplinary approach enriches the theory and practice of conflict transformation as a process that involves reimagining...

... expands into an affirmation of resistance. The complexity in which that struggle has been understood, both as one against the state (Leviathan) and one in power's name, opens out, the chapter finally shows, onto this text's enduring relevance for political theory and, specifically, for the consideration...

... as an act of political theory, a meditation on the nature of royal identity inside a rapidly evolving administrative culture. This culture abstracted authority from any fully coherent origin and relocated it in a more quantitatively oriented process of management and measurement. In the play, dramatic...

... in intellectual traditions rethinking political theory from modernity’s underside, and concludes with the book prospectus. Arendt Hannah Césaire Aimé freedom marronage Patterson Orlando slavery Aragon Louis Bandung Conference colonization and colonialism Depestre René Dessalines Jean Jacques Scott...

... that promulgated them. This book also rebuilds the link of traditional political philosophy and a political theory of marriage that at first blush seems to have very little in common with that tradition. An overview of the chapters included in this book is given. Copenhagen Goethe Johan Wolfgang Kierkegaard...

... communis common sense modern intellectual history Hannah Arendt rhetoric political theory Augustine Rahel Varnhagen polis space of appearance Hannah Arendt was one of the most significant political thinkers of the twentieth century, but there is a glaring absence at the center of her project...

... approaches to thinking about the content of politics; his Histories model new modes of inquiry into politics. The Histories thus challenge readers to reconsider both the what of politics and the how of political theory. This challenges prompts a new orientation for political life in general: earthly...