Performing Political Theory Pedagogy in Modern Political Theory /

• Main Author: Uhr, John (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Political theory.; Political philosophy.; Educational policy.; Education and state.; Political Theory.; Political Philosophy.; Educational Policy and Politics.

This book examines the performative role of influential thinkers in the history of modern Western political thought. The case studies examine influential political philosophers who saw their writing role 'performatively', as an exercise in pedagogy designed to generate a new type of politi...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: Politics and Pegagogy
• 2. Reading Dewey
• 3. Reading Shaftesbury
• 4. Reading Machiavelli's The Prince
• 5. Reading Mill's On Liberty
• 6. Reading Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals
• 7. Conclusion: Reading Collingwood.