TY - BOOK AU - Vincent, Andrew TI - The Nature of Political Theory SN - 9780199297955 U1 - 320.011 PY - 2004/// CY - New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Political science KW - Political science -- Philosophy N1 - 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 Conclusion4 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 -- 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 PluralismA 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 FallibilismDiscourse Ethics and Deliberative Democracy -- Conclusion -- 10 Circular Foundations -- The Hermeneutic Context -- Language, History, and Prejudice -- Enlightenment and Positivism -- Dialogue and Fusion -- Ethics and Politics -- A Dialogic Confiict -- Conclusion -- ER -