Vocations of Political Theory

Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 8
Introduction: Calling in Question......Page 10
I: INVOKING POLITICAL THEORY......Page 28
1 Political Theory: From Vocation to Invocation......Page 30
II: THEORIZING LOSS......Page 50
2 Specters and Angels at the End of History......Page 52
3 The Politics of Nostalgia and Theories of Loss......Page 86
III: THINKING IN TIME......Page 118
4 Can Theorists Make Time for Belief?......Page 120
5 The History of Political Thought as a "Vocation": A Pragmatist Defense......Page 145
IV: POLITICS AND THE ORDINARY......Page 170
6 Political Theory for Losers......Page 172
7 Feminism's Flight from the Ordinary......Page 193
V: POLITICAL KNOWLEDGE......Page 214
8 Conceptions of Science in Political Theory: A Tale of Cloaks and Daggers......Page 216
9 Political Theory as a Provocation: An Ethos of Political Theory......Page 239
10 Gramsci, Organic Intellectuals, and Cultural Studies: Lessons for Political Theorists......Page 265
VI: PRACTICING POLITICAL THEORY......Page 288
11 Reading the Body: Hobbes, Body Politics, and the Vocation of Political Theory......Page 290
12 Work, Shame, and the Chain Gang: The New Civic Education......Page 311
13 The Nobility of Democracy......Page 332
Contributors......Page 354
C......Page 358
H......Page 359
M......Page 360
P......Page 361
W......Page 362
Z......Page 363