8. Critical Naturalism and Political Theory

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents IX
3. Acknowledgments XI
4. Part One. Terms of the Problem
5. 1. The Turn Away from Neo-Kantian Political Theory 3
6. Part Two. Placing Conventions in Political Argument
7. 2. Liberalism and Postmodernism 19
8. 3. Political Theory as Connected Social Criticism 55
9. Part Three. Contemporary Political Theory and the History of Ideas
10. 4. The Tradition of Political Theory as Political Instruction 91
11. 5. The History of Ideas as Therapeutic Diagnosis 121
12. 6. History as a Source of Republican Alternatives 166
13. Part Four. Anti-Kantian Foundations
14. 7. Anti-Kantian Complaints Revisited 207
15. 8. Critical Naturalism and Political Theory 231
16. 9. Principled Criticism and the Democratic Political Ethos 265
17. Works Cited 299
18. Index 317