Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Editor’s Introduction xiii
5. Part One. The Political and Theoretical
6. Chapter 1. Political Theory as a Vocation 3
7. Chapter 2. Political Theory: From Vocation to Invocation 33
8. Part Two. Historical
9. Ancient and Modern Democracy
10. Chapter 3. Transgression, Equality, and Voice 53
11. Chapter 4. Norm and Form: The Constitutionalizing of Democracy 77
12. Chapter 5. Fugitive Democracy 100
13. Hobbes
14. Chapter 6. Hobbes and the Epic Tradition of Political Theory 117
15. Chapter 7. Hobbes and the Culture of Despotism 149
16. Modern Theorists
17. Chapter 8. On Reading Marx Politically 173
18. Chapter 9. Max Weber: Legitimation, Method, and the Politics of Theory 195
19. Part Three. Recent Theorists
20. Chapter 10. Reason in Exile: Critical Theory and Technological Society 217
21. Chapter 11. Hannah Arendt: Democracy and the Political 237
22. Chapter 12. Hannah Arendt and the Ordinance of Time 250
23. Chapter 13. The Liberal/Democratic Divide: On Rawls’s Political Liberalism 260
24. Part Four. Postmoderns
25. Chapter 14. On the Theory and Practice of Power 283
26. Chapter 15. Democracy in the Discourse of Postmodernism 300
27. Chapter 16. Postmodern Politics and the Absence of Myth 316
28. Chapter 17. The Destructive Sixties and Postmodern Conservatism 330
29. Chapter 18. From Progress to Modernization: The Conservative Turn 348
30. Part Five. Revisioning Democracy
31. Chapter 19. Editorial 363
32. Chapter 20. What Revolutionary Action Means Today 368
33. Chapter 21. The People’s Two Bodies 379
34. Chapter 22. The New Public Philosophy 394
35. Chapter 23. Democracy, Difference, and Re- Cognition 405
36. Chapter 24. Constitutional Order, Revolutionary Violence, and Modern Power: An Essay of Juxtapositions 421
37. Chapter 25. Agitated Times 438
38. Notes 449
39. Sources 491
40. Index 493