Political Theory articles from June 1998

Political Theory archives from June 1998

David Easton: reflections on an American scholar. (political science)
June 1, 1998... I do not for these defects despair of our republic. R. W. Emerson, Politics David Easton has long been a slight source of guilt to my intellectual conscience. He was required reading in graduate school. In the 1960s, "required...

David Easton's postmodern images. (systems analysis in political science)
June 1, 1998... INTRODUCTION If nearly everyone in the social sciences, or at least in political science, knows about David Easton's systems analysis of political life, they may not be aware that it was Easton who introduced the concept of Political...

The nature of inequality: uncovering the modern in Leo Strauss's idealist ethics.
June 1, 1998... Leo Strauss may be academic liberalism's most popular "Other." Alternately revered and reviled, Strauss provides contemporary American thought with a rousing attack on egalitarian ideals. Nietzsche and Heidegger may have been radical critics...

"A most disagreeable mirror": race consciousness as double consciousness. (James Baldwin)
June 1, 1998... "As is the inevitable result of things unsaid, we find ourselves until today oppressed with a dangerous and reverberating silence."(1) The writer of these words is James Baldwin (1924-87), and "the dangerous and reverberating silence" is the...

From the periphery of modernity: Antonio Gramsci's theory of subordination and hegemony.
June 1, 1998... Antonio Gramsci's theory of hegemony was meant to be a strategy of power pursued through a cultural work. It mainly refers to situations of subordination of both individuals and groups. Subordination entails a relation of domination by which...

On the originality of Francois Furet: a commemorative note.
June 1, 1998... When he died in toulouse July 12, 1997, Francois Furet was the most celebrated historian of the day. He had just been named in March a member of the Academie Francaise, possibly the last significant honor that could have been bestowed on the...

Self-Ownership, Freedom, and Equality.
June 1, 1998... SELF-OWNERSHIP, FREEDOM, AND EQUALITY by G. A. Cohen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. 277 pp. These four books indicate that political theorizing in the English-speaking world is in a healthy and lively state and that new...

Michael Foucault and the Politics of Freedom.
June 1, 1998... MICHEL FOUCAULT AND THE POLITICS OF FREEDOM by Thomas L. Dumm. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1996.168 pp. These four books indicate that political theorizing in the English-speaking world is in a healthy and lively state and that new conceptual...

Deleuze and Guattari: An Introduction to the Politics of Desire.
June 1, 1998... DELEUZE AND GUATARRI: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE POLITICS OF DESIRE by Philip Goodchild. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1996. 226 pp. These four books indicate that political theorizing in the English-speaking world is in a healthy and lively state and...

Real Freedom For All: What (If Anything) Can Justify Capitalism?
June 1, 1998... REAL FREEDOM FOR ALL: WHAT (IF ANYTHING) CAN JUSTIFY CAPITALISM? by Philippe Van Parijs. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. 322 pp. These four books indicate that political theorizing in the English-speaking world is in a healthy and...

Cleisthenes the Athenian: An Essay on the Representation of Space and Time in Greek Political Thought from the End of the Sixth Century to the Death of Plato.
June 1, 1998... CLEISTHENES THE ATHENIAN: AN ESSAY ON THE REPRESENTATION OF SPACE AND TIME IN GREEK POLITICAL THOUGHT FROM THE END OF THE SIXTH CENTURY TO THE DEATH OF PLATO by Pierre Leveque and Pierre Vidal-Naquet. Translated from the French and edited by...

Taming Democracy: Models of Political Rhetoric in Classical Athens.
June 1, 1998... TAMING DEMOCRACY MODELS OF POLITICAL RHETORIC IN CLASSICAL ATHENS by Harvey Yunis. Ithaca, NY. Cornell University Press, 1996. Two books on the Athenian democracy, written more than thirty years apart. There is little common ground between...