TY  - BOOK
AU  - Floyd,Jonathan
AU  - Stears,Marc
TI  - Political Philosophy versus History?: Contextualism and Real Politics in Contemporary Political Thought 
SN  - 9781139003698 (ebook)
AV  - JA78 .P53 2011
U1  - 320.01 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016)
N2  - Is the way in which political philosophy is conducted today too ahistorical? Does such ahistoricism render political philosophy too abstract? Is political philosophy thus incapable of dealing with the realities of political life? This volume brings together some of the world's leading political philosophers to address these crucial questions. The contributors focus especially on political philosophy's pretensions to universality and on its strained relationship with the world of real politics. Some chapters argue that political philosophers should not be cowed by the accusations levied against them from outside of their own field. Others insist that these accusations require a dramatic reshaping of normative political thought. The volume will spark controversy across political philosophy and beyond
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139003698
ER  -