Politics and Vision Continuity and Innovation in Western Political Thought

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 Foreword to the Princeton Classics Edition 
 Preface to the 2004 Expanded Edition 
 Preface 
 PART ONE 
 CHAPTER ONE Political Philosophy and Philosophy 
 I Political Philosophy as a Form of Inquiry 
 II Form and Substance. III Political Thought and Political Institutions IV Political Philosophy and the Political 
 V The Vocabulary of Political Philosophy 
 VI Vision and Political Imagination 
 VII Political Concepts and Political Phenomena 
 VIII A Tradition of Discourse 
 IX Tradition and Innovation. CHAPTER TWO Plato: Political Philosophy versus Politics I The Invention of Political Philosophy 
 II Philosophy and Society 
 III Politics and Architectonics 
 IV The Search for a Selfless Instrument 
 V The Question of Power 
 VI Political Knowledge and Political Participation. VII The Limits of Unity VIII The Ambiguities of Plato 
 CHAPTER THREE The Age of Empire: Space and Community 
 I The Crisis in the Political 
 II The New Dimensions of Space 
 III Citizenship and Disengagement 
 IV Politics and the Roman Republic 
 V The Politics of Interest. VI From Political Association to Power Organization VII The Decline of Political Philosophy 
 CHAPTER FOUR The Early Christian Era: Time and Community 
 I The Political Element in Early Christianity: The New Notion of Community.