The Nature of Political Theory

348 Index

Gadamer, Hans Georg 14, 92, 178, 317, 318, 321,
322, 271–2, 294–316
central theme 307
conflict with Habermas 310–15
dialogue 14, 303–6, 320
Enlightenment 299, 301–3
experience 305
fallibilism 308, 323–5
fusion of horizons 304–6, 308, 317, 322
hermeneutic circle 14, 307–8, 321–4
ideology 312, 313–14
Kant’s aesthetic 302–3
method and 303
natural science and 303
on ethics 306–10
play of dialogue 305, 308
politics and 306–10
positivism and 301–3
tradition 314
Wittgenstein 312–13
Galston, W. 214
Gauthier, D. 79, 112, 118–20, 124, 127, 131–2,
135, 137
Geist 4
Geisteswissenschaft30, 148, 294
Gentile, G. 93
Gerber, Carl von 75
Germino, D. 22, 70, 93
Geschichtliche Grundbegriff 49
Gewirth, A. 5–6, 135
Gierke, Otto von 75, 157, 211
Gilligan, C. 130, 224–5
Gramsci, A. 68, 221
Grand Écoletradition 32
Gray, J. 94, 100, 103–4, 231
Greek political theory 8
Green, T. H. 26, 145, 192
Greenleaf, W. H. 22, 75, 76, 170
Grice, H. P. 43
Gunnell, J. 32, 38, 56, 75, 78, 92

Habermas, J. 4–5, 14, 92, 197–8, 199, 211, 271–92,
293, 316, 318
ambiguity of reason 312–13
Apel and 285–6
central theme 289
communicative action 4, 293
communitarianism 290
critical theory and 275–80
critique of Gadamer 272, 310–15
deliberative democracy 288–90
development of work 278–80

discourse ethics 288–90, 293

empirical-analytic sciences 281

end of philosophy 284

Enlightenment 277

fallibilism 4, 284, 285–8

foundationalism 279, 282–4, 287–8

hermeneutics 272, 284

historical-hermeneutic sciences 281

ideal speech 285, 293, 314

ideology critique 278, 282, 312

knowledge spheres and 274, 280–2, 292, 313–14

metaphysics 4–5, 274

negative dialectics 277

Nietzsche 275

overall aims 280

philosophical premises 272–5

positivism 274, 280–2

post-metaphysics 279–80

postmodern critique 279–80

pragmatism 284

Rawls and 278, 291

republicanism 289–90

social strategic action 4

speech acts 286–7, 293

the subject 282–4

universal pragmatics 284–8

Hacker, A. 24

Hadot, Pierre 14

Hampton, J. 25

Hart,H.L.A. 111

Hayek, F. 24, 47, 94, 112, 152, 153, 172, 200, 213

Hegel, G. W. F. 3, 26, 37, 39, 75, 85, 149, 156, 157,

252, 304

Hegelianism 9, 98, 147

Heidegger, M. 21, 41, 88, 178, 186, 236, 239–42,

255, 258, 274, 279, 317, 321

Herder, G. 26, 157, 160, 172, 173, 215

hermeneutic circle 14, 307–8, 321–4

hermeneutics 14, 294–318

Bildung301, 304, 305, 308, 317, 320

circle 14, 307–8, 321–4

critique of positivism and 301–3

dialogue 297–301

Dilthey and 294–5, 297, 316

Enlightenment 299, 301–3

fore-structures 296–7

forms of 294–6

Heidegger and 296–7

history 297–301

language 297–301

origin 294–5