CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Calling in Question Jason A. Frank and John Tambornino
I INVOKING POLITICAL THEORY
1 Political Theory: From Vocation to Invocation Sheldon S. Wolin
II THEORIZING LOSS
2 Specters and Angels at the End of History Wendy Brown
3 The Politics of Nostalgia and Theories of Loss J. Peter Euben
III THINKING IN TIME
4 Can Theorists Make Time for Belief? Russell Arben Fox
5 The History of Political Thought as a "Vocation": A Pragmatist Defense David Paul Mandell
IV POLITICS AND THE ORDINARY
6 Political Theory for Losers Thomas L. Dumm
7 Feminism's Flight from the Ordinary Linda M. G. Zerilli
V POLITICAL KNOWLEDGE
8 Conceptions of Science in Political Theory: A Tale of Cloaks and Daggers Mark B. Brown
9 Political Theory as a Provocation: An Ethos of Political Theory Lon Troyer
10 Gramsci, Organic Intellectuals, and Cultural Studies: Lessons for Political Theorists Shane Gunster
VI PRACTICING POLITICAL THEORY
11 Reading the Body: Hobbes, Body Politics, and the Vocation of Political Theory Samantha Frost
12 Work, Shame, and the Chain Gang: The New Civic Education Jill Locke
13 The Nobility of Democracy William E. Connolly
Contributors
Index