Oxford Handbook of Political Theory

The Oxford Handbooks of Political Science is a ten-volume set of reference books offering authoritative and engaging critical overviews of the state of political science. Each volume focuses on a particular part of the discipline, with volumes on Public Policy, Political Theory, Political Economy, Contextual Political Analysis, Comparative Politics, International Relations, Law and Politics, Political Behavior, Political Institutions, and Political Methodology. The project as a whole is under the General Editorship of Robert E. Goodin, with each volume being edited by a distinguished international group of specialists in their respective fields. The books set out not just to report on the discipline, but to shape it. The series will be an indispensable point of reference for anyone working in political science and adjacent disciplines. Long recognized as one of the main branches of political science, political theory has in recent years burgeoned in many different directions. Close textual analysis of historical texts sits alongside more analytical work on the nature and normative grounds of political values. Continental and post-modern influences jostle with ones from economics, history, sociology, and the law. Feminist concerns with embodiment make us look at old problems in new ways, and challenges of new technologies open whole new vistas for political theory. This Handbook provides comprehensive and critical coverage of the lively and contested field of political theory, and will help set the agenda for the field for years to come. Forty-five chapters by distinguished political theorists look at the state of the field, where it has been in the recent past, and where it is likely to go in future. They examine political theory's edges as well as its core, the globalizing context of the field, and the challenges presented by social, economic, and technological changes.

Table of Contents:
Introduction, John S Dryzek, Bonnie Honig, and Anne Philips I. CONTEMPORARY CURRENTS 1. Justice After Rawls, Richard Arneson 2. Power After Foucault, Wendy Brown 3. Critical Theory Beyond Habermas, William E Scheuerman 4. Feminist Theory and the Canon of Political Thought, Linda Zerilli 5. After the Linguistic Turn: Poststructuralist and Liberal Pragmatist Political Theory, Paul Patton 6. The Pluralist Imagination, David Schlosberg II. THE LEGACY OF THE PAST 7. Theory in History: Problems of Context and Narrative, J G A Pocock 8. The Political Theory of Classical Greece, Jill Frank 9. Republican Visions, Eric Nelson 10. Modernity and its Critics, Jane Bennett 11. The History of Political Thought, as Disciplinary Genre, James Farr III. POLITICAL THEORY IN THE WORLD 12. The Challenge of European Union, Richarad Bellamy 13. East Asia and the West: The Impact of Confucianism on Anglo-American Political Thought, Daniel A Bell 14. In the Beginning all the World was America: American Exceptionalism in New Contexts, Ronald J Schmidt Jr 15. Changing Interpretations of Modern and Contemporary Islamic Political Theory, Roxanne L Euben IV. STATE AND PEOPLE 16. Constitutionalism and the Rule of Law, Shannon Stimson 17. Emergency Powers, John Ferejohn and Pasquale Pasquino 18. The People, Margaret Canovan 19. Civil Society and State, Simone Chambers and Jeffrey Kopstein 20. Democracy and the State, Mark E Warren 21. Democracy and Citizenship: Expanding Domains, Michael Saward V. JUSTICE, EQUALITY, AND FREEDOM 22. Impartiality, Susan Mendus 23. Justice, Luck, and Desert, Serena Olsaretti 24. Recognition and Redistribution, Patchen Markell 25. Equality and Difference, Judith Squires 26. Liberty, Equality, and Property, Andrew Williams 27. Historical Injustice, Duncan Ivison VI. PLURALISM, MULTICULTURALISM, AND NATIONALISM 28. Nationalism, David Miller 29. Multiculturalism and its Critics, Jeffrey Spinner-Halev 30. Identity, Difference, Toleration, Anna Elisabetta Galeotti 31. Moral Universalism and Cultural Difference, Chandran Kukathas VII. CLAIMS IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT 32. Human Rights, Jack Donnelly 33. From International to Gloabl Justice?, Chris Brown 34. Political Secularism, Rajeev Bhargava 35. Multi-Culturalism and Post-Colonialism, Paul Gilroy VIII. THE BODY POLITIC 36. Politicizing the Body: Property, Contract, and Rights, Moria Gatens 37. New Ways of Thinking About Privacy, Beate Roessler 38. New Technologies of the Body, Cecile Fabre 39. Paranoia and Political Philosophy, James M Glass IX. TESTING THE BOUNDARIES 40. Political Theory and Cultural Studies, Jodi Dean 41. Political Theory and the Environment, John M Meyer 42. Political Theory and Political Economy, Stephen L Elkin 43. Political Theory and Social Theory, Christine Helliwell and Barry Hindess X. OLD AND NEW 44. Then and Now: Participant-Observation in Political Theory, William E Connolly 45. Exile and Re-Entry: Political Theory Yesterday and Tomorrow, Arlene W Saxonhouse

Review :
The contributors of these chapters are an impressive array of talants... To read their contributions is to learn of the edd and flow of current debates, discussions and conclusions of political theory understood most broadly... the editors have done great service to political theory with this stock taking and assessment, which is at once thorough, well thought out, systematic, creative and - at time - risk taking. It belongs on the shelves of all philosopher-monarchs. Michael Jackson, University of Sydney Spanning all of the major substantive areas and approaches in modern political science, this blockbuster set is a must-have for scholars and students alike. Each volume is crafted by a distinguished set of editors who have assembled critical, comprehensive, essays to survey accumulated knowledge and emerging issues in the study of politics. These volumes will help to shape the discipline for many years to come. Theda Skocpol, Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology, and Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University Judging from the editors, contributors, and topics covered, the forthcoming Oxford Handbooks of Political Science will be a landmark series...This is a series that not only university libraries, but more specialized social science and political science libraries, will want to have on their shelves Robert O. Keohane, Professor of International Affairs, Princeton University This extraordinary series offers 'state of the art' assessments that instruct, engage, and provoke. Both synoptic and directive, the fine essays across these superbly edited volumes reflect the ambitions and diversity of political science. No one who is immersed in the discipline's controversies and possibilities should miss the intellectual stimulation and critical appraisal these works so powerfully provide. Ira Katznelson, Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History, Columbia University Under the general editorship of Robert E. Goodin, a large group of intellectually attractive authors has charted the entire field of political science in an unbiased multi-paradigmatic way. Minerva's owl would make a nice logo for this monumental collective work of the Oxford Handbooks: what moves us forward is looking back at what we know. Claus Offe, Professor of Political Science, Hertie School of Governance, Berlin and Institute for Social Science, Humboldt University, Berlin. This is a unique and impressive set of analyses about scholarship in political theory. It is comprehensive, as we would expect. Beyond that, it is remarkably creative in the way that Dryzek, Honig and Phillips have organized categories, and it includes much overdue reference to scholarship on non-Western and postcolonial thought. Iris Marion Young, Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago A paramount effort coordinated by Robert Goodin for Oxford University Press has produced an impressive set of ten volumes about the state of the discipline, the Oxford Handbook of Political Science, which has become an instant must. Josep Colomer's Weekly Blog