The Encyclopedia of Political Thought

A particular challenge for anyone studying political thought is to get a clear understanding of how practical politics blends with political theory and philosophy. These two strands constantly intermix as, for instance, ideas and issues about practical politics (political and social movements, political order, public sphere, resistance and revolution, liberalism) both draw on and imply ideas and issues about political theory and philosophy (natural law, necessity, identity and the self, human dignity, civic virtue, pragmatism, reason). Into both come the many writers and thinkers, commentators and political actors familiar in the whole field of politics, from Plato to Rawls, from...