Interpreting political responsibility : essays 1981-1989 /
In this volume one of the leading political theorists of our time addresses what he believes is the major task of political theory: showing human beings how they have good reason to act in the historical situation in which they find themselves. Dunn argues that humans today depend more abjectly and...
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| Language: | English |
| Published: | Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1990] Ã1990 |
| Series: | Princeton legacy library
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- 1. Introduction
- 2. What is Living and What is Dead in the Political Theory of John Locke?
- 3. Trust and Political Agency
- 4. Rights and Political Conflict
- 5. Liberty as a Substantive Political Value
- 6. Revolution
- 7. Country Risk: Social and Cultural Aspects
- 8. Responsibility without Power: States and the Incoherence of the Modern Conception of the Political Good
- 9. The Politics of Representation and Good Government in Post-colonial Africa
- 10. Unger's Politics and the Appraisal of Political Possibility
- 11. Elusive Community: The Political Theory of Charles Taylor
- 12. Reconceiving the Content and Character of Modern Political Community
- Notes
- Index.