What should political theory be now? : essays from the Shambaugh Conference on Political Theory / edited by John S. Nelson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Natures and futures for political theory / John S. Nelson -- In search of the political object : beyond methodology and transcendentalism / John G. Gunnell -- Political philosophy and political action / Ira L. Strauber -- Philosophy and democracy / Michael Walzer -- Political theorizing in the late twentieth century : foci, loci, and agendas / Paul F. Kress -- Contradiction and critique in political theory / Terence Ball -- What should political theory be now? / Glenn Tinder -- Political theory as political rhetoric / John S. Nelson -- Nihilism and political theory / Tracy B. Strong -- Martin Heidegger and the metapolitics of crisis / Allan Megill --

The dilemma of legitimacy / William E. Connolly -- Political theory and the internal structures of the self : reflections on where political theory should be now / James M. Glass -- Questions of power in political theory / Richard W. Miller -- Political theory and political science : the rediscovery and reinterpretation of the pragmatic tradition / Charles W. Anderson -- Education for politics : rethinking research on political socialization / John S. Nelson -- What does it take to have a theory? : principles in political science / William H. Panning -- One step backward, two steps forward : reflections upon contemporary political theory / Richard Ashcraft -- Does political theory have a future? / Robert Booth Fowler.