Politics and Vision: Continuity and Innovation in Western Political Thought

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Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; Foreword to the Princeton Classics Edition ; Preface to the 2004 Expanded Edition ; Preface ; PART ONE ; CHAPTER ONE Political Philosophy and Philosophy ; I Political Philosophy as a Form of Inquiry ; II Form and Substance. Cover Title Copyright Dedication CONTENTS Foreword to the Princeton Classics Edition Preface to the 2004 Expanded Edition Preface PART ONE CHAPTER ONE Political Philosophy and Philosophy I Political Philosophy as a Form of Inquiry II Form and Substance. III Political Thought and Political Institutions IV Political Philosophy and the Political V The Vocabulary of Political Philosophy VI Vision and Political Imagination VII Political Concepts and Political Phenomena VIII A Tradition of Discourse IX Tradition and Innovation. CHAPTER TWO Plato: Political Philosophy versus Politics I The Invention of Political Philosophy II Philosophy and Society III Politics and Architectonics IV The Search for a Selfless Instrument V The Question of Power VI Political Knowledge and Political Participation. VII The Limits of Unity VIII The Ambiguities of Plato CHAPTER THREE The Age of Empire: Space and Community I The Crisis in the Political II The New Dimensions of Space III Citizenship and Disengagement IV Politics and the Roman Republic V The Politics of Interest. VI From Political Association to Power Organization VII The Decline of Political Philosophy CHAPTER FOUR The Early Christian Era: Time and Community I The Political Element in Early Christianity: The New Notion of Community.