Part I: Origins
On the History of “Theory” and “Praxis” by Nicholas Lobkowicz
Creatures of a Day: Thought and Action in Thucydides by J. Peter Euben
Plato and Aristotle: The Unity Versus the Autonomy of Theory and Practice by Terence Ball
Part II: Developments
Kant on Theory and Practice by Carl Raschke
Theory and Practice in Hegel and Marx: An Unfinished Dialogue by Peter Fuss
The Unity of Theory and Practice: The Science of Marx and Nietzsche by Edward Andrew
Part II: Dilemmas and New Directions
Hannah Arendt: The Ambiguities of Theory and Practice by Richard J. Bernstein
Rebels, Beginners, and Buffoons: Politics as Action by Raymond L. Nichols
How People Change Themselves: The Relationship between Critical Theory and Its Audience by Brian Fay
Nine distinguished contributors - philosophers and political scientists at universities and colleges in the United States, Europe, Canada, and Australia - write essays for this volume in political philosophy. The book is dedicated to the memory of Hannah Arendt, the writer and philosopher who died in 1975. The contributors discuss various aspects of the concepts of theory and practice and their interrelationship. All of the essays were written expressly for this volume. In an introduction, Professor Ball, the volume editor, notes that the essays reflect the diversity of conceptions of theory, of practice, and of their conceptual and practical interrelations, and that the contributors explore various ways and byways of approaching the age-old questions of theory and its relation to practice.