Taking as its point of departure a sharp critique of Rawls's influential A Theory of Justice - which, like most Western political philosophy since the seventeenth century, considers ethics to be foundational to a proper understanding of the political - this book looks at politics from an aesthetic p[...]

This ambitious work aims to reintroduce history into political theory. Contemporary political philosophy - liberalism, communitarianism, and republicanism - disregards history because it is irrelevant to the nature of politics and to what constitutes a political problem. The author argues that this [...]