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| Preface to the Second Edition | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Theory and Vision | |
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| Setting Our Sights | |
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| Parsimony, Accuracy, and Significance | |
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| Scientific Theory | |
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| The Interpretive Nature of Political Theory | |
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| Hermeneutics and Intersubjectivity | |
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| The Normative Nature of Theory | |
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| Conceptual and Historical Analysis | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| The Question of Human Nature | |
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| The Political Significance of Human Nature | |
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| The Genetic Leash | |
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| Genes and Mores | |
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| Biological and Cultural Reproduction | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Politics, Power, and the Public Good | |
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| Power and Force | |
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| The Nature of Political Power | |
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| The Public Realm and the Private Realm | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Modernity and Postmodernity | |
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| Individualist Theories of Politics | |
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| Structuralist Theories of Politics | |
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| Poststructural and Postmodern Theories of Politics | |
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| Identity and the Exercise of Power | |
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| Social Power and Individual Freedom | |
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| Theorizing at the Edge of Modernity | |
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| Suggested Reading | |
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| Identity and Difference | |
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| Race, Religion, and Otherness | |
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| The Other in America | |
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| Limiting Power and Respecting Difference | |
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| Gender and Identity | |
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| The Historical Development of Feminism | |
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| Gender Justice | |
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| Equality and Difference | |
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| Feminism, Liberalism, and Patriarchy | |
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| The Politics of Class | |
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| Alienation and Revolution | |
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| Ideology | |
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| History and Class Conflict | |
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| Communism versus Socialism | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Statecraft and Soulcraft | |
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| Politics and Philosophy in Ancient Greece | |
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| Reason in the Soul and in the State | |
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| The Politics of Unity and Plurality | |
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| The Life of Liberty | |
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| Positive and Negative Liberty | |
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| The Excesses and Deficiencies of Freedom | |
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| Mastery and Liberty | |
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| The Life of Reason | |
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| Economic Reason | |
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| Political Reason | |
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| Ecological Reason | |
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| The Balance of Justice | |
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| The Primacy of Justice | |
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| The Limits of Justice | |
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| Giving to Each What Is Due | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Ideology and Irony | |
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| The Nature of Ideology | |
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| The Nature of Irony | |
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| Between Ideology and Irony | |
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| The Power of Words | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Author | |