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Political Philosophy versus History?
Contextualism and Real Politics in Contemporary Political Thought

Is the way in which political philosophy is conducted today too ahistorical? Does such ahistoricism render political philosophy too abstract? Is political philosophy thus incapable of dealing with the realities of political life? This volume brings together some of the worlds leading political philosophers to address these crucial questions. The contributors focus especially on political philosophys pretensions to universality, and on its strained relationship with the world of real politics. Some chapters argue that political philosophers should not be cowed by the accusations levied against them from outside of their own field. Others insist that these accusations require a dramatic reshaping of normative political thought. The volume will spark controversy across political philosophy and beyond.

Jonathan Floyd is British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford, and Research Fellow in Political Theory at St Hildas College, Oxford. He is currently working on a book on methodology in political philosophy, as well as a book on the same topic as the present volume.

Marc Stears is Fellow in Politics at University College, Oxford, and University Lecturer in Political Theory in the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford. His most recent book is Demanding Democracy: American Radicals in Search of a New Politics (2010).

Political Philosophy versus History?
Contextualism and Real Politics in Contemporary Political Thought

Edited by

Jonathan Floyd and Marc Stears

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Political philosophy versus history : contextualism and real politics in contemporary political thought / edited by Jonathan Floyd, Marc Stears.

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ISBN 978-0-521-19715-1 (hardback)

1. Political science Philosophy. I. Floyd, Jonathan, 1980 II. Stears, Marc. III. Title.

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Contents

Jonathan Floyd and Marc Stears

Paul Kelly

Jonathan Floyd

Bruce Haddock

Gordon Graham

Iain Hampsher-Monk

Melissa Lane

Andrew Sabl

Bonnie Honig and Marc Stears

Jonathan Floyd

Note on the contributors

Jonathan Floyd

is British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Politics and International Relations,

University of Oxford, and Research Fellow in Political Theory at St Hildas College, Oxford. He is currently working on a book on methodology in political philosophy, as well as a book on the same topic as the present volume.

Gordon Graham

is Henry Luce III Professor of Philosophy and the Arts at Princeton Theological Seminary.

His recent publications include The Re-enchantment of the World: Art versus Religion (2007) and Ethics and International Relations (2008).

Bruce Haddock

is Professor of Modern European Social and Political Thought at Cardiff University.

His recent publications include A History of Political Thought: From Antiquity to the Present (2008) and A History of Political Thought: 1789 to the Present (2005).

Iain Hampsher-Monk

is Professor of Political Theory at the University of Exeter.

His recent publications include: Democracy and federation in the federalist papers, in M. Burgess and M. Gagnon (eds.), Federal Democracies (2009) and (with Andrew Hindmoor) Rational choice and interpretive evidence: caught between a rock and a hard place?, Political Studies , 58: 1 (2010).

Bonnie Honig

is the Sarah Rebecca Roland Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University and a senior research professor at the American Bar Foundation.

Her books include Political Theory and the Displacement of Politics (1993), Democracy and the Foreigner (2001) and Emergency Politics: Paradox, Law, Democracy (2009).

Paul Kelly

is Professor of Political Theory and Head of the Government Department at LSE.

His recent publications include Lockes Second Treatise of Government (2007) and British Political Theory in the Twentieth Century (2010).

Melissa Lane

is Professor of Politics at Princeton University.

Her books include Method and Politics in Platos Statesman (1998) and Platos Progeny: How Plato and Socrates still Captivate the Modern Mind (2001).

Andrew Sabl

is Associate Professor of Public Policy and Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles.

He is the author of Ruling Passions: Political Offices and Democratic Ethics (2002) and is currently completing a book for Princeton University Press on the political theory of David Humes History of England .

Marc Stears

is Fellow in Politics at University College,

Oxford, and University Lecturer in Political Theory in the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford. His most recent book is Demanding Democracy: American Radicals in Search of a New Politics (2010).

Acknowledgements

This book first emerged from a one-day workshop organised by Jonathan Floyd and hosted at University College, Oxford in the summer of 2007. We are extremely grateful to everyone who participated in that initial event, including Michael Freeden, Benjamin Jackson, Mark Philp, Alan Ryan, Quentin Skinner and Adam Swift. We are also grateful to the participants at two further events, one held at the American Political Science Association annual convention in Boston in 2008, and the other, in 2009, again at University College, Oxford. These participants included Annabel Brett, Christopher Brooke, Jeremy Farris, Jeremy Jennings, David Leopold, Lois McNay and Reidar Maliks. Generous financial support for these events came from Oxfords Centre for Political Ideologies, where we warmly thank the Centres Director, Michael Freeden, for his invaluable assistance, and from University College, Oxford, where we equally warmly thank the Senior Tutor, Anne Knowland. We also greatly appreciated the work of the excellent team at Cambridge University Press who helped us transform the conversations at these events into a book. John Haslam was the ideal editor, generous and demanding in exactly the right measure, and Josephine Lane offered superb support throughout the final process.

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