- 1 An Eclectic Subject
- Foundations
- Theory and Politics
- Pattern of the Book
- PART ONE
- 2 We Have a Firm Foundation
- Classical Normative Political Theory
- Institutional Political Theory
- Historical Political Theory
- Empirical Political Theory
- Ideological Political Theory
- Conclusion
- PART TWO
- 3 Foundations Shaken but Not Stirred
- Logical Positivism
- Ordinary Language
- A Digression on Death and Putrefaction
- Wittgenstein and Essential Contestability
- A Reckoning with Essential Contestability
- Conclusion
- 4 Bleached Foundations
- The Concept of Justice
- Conceptions of Justice
- Procedural Theories
- Social Justice: Desert and Non-Desert
- Justice and Mutual Advantage
- Justice and Utility
- Justice as Impartiality
- Sexual Justice
- Spheres of Justice
- Conclusion
- PART THREE viii Contents
- 5 Shoring Up Foundations
- Conventions
- Oakeshott and Conventionalism
- Communitarianism
- Political Liberalism
- Conclusion
- 6 New Conventions for Old
- Nationalism
- Neo-Aristotelianism
- Republicanism
- Conclusion
- PART FOUR
- 7 Segmented Foundations and Pluralism
- A Word about Pluralism
- Liberal Pluralism
- Multicultural Pluralism
- Difference Pluralism
- Conclusion
- 8 Standing Problems
- Nietzsche and the Twilight of the Idols
- Heidegger and Humanism
- Derrida and Foucault
- Rorty and Connolly
- Lyotard and the Differend
- Conclusion
- PART FIVE
- 9 Dialogic Foundations
- The Philosophical Context
- Critical Theory
- Critical Theory Fulfilled
- Positivism and Knowledge Spheres
- The Critique of Foundationalism and the Subject
- Universal Pragmatics and Fallibilism
- Discourse Ethics and Deliberative Democracy
- Conclusion
- 10 Circular Foundations Contents ix
- The Hermeneutic Context
- Language, History, and Prejudice
- Enlightenment and Positivism
- Dialogue and Fusion
- Ethics and Politics
- A Dialogic Conflict
- Conclusion
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
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