![handle is hein.journals/ptxa4 and id is 1 raw text is: FROM THE EDITOR
\ITH THIS ISSUE, POLITICAL THEORY begins its fourth
year of publication. Despite library acquisition budget cutbacks and
inflation, and their depressing impact on periodical publishers, we have
continued to grow. The interest in political philosophy, which historically
has been provoked by periods of major political crisis, has clearly been
excited and sustained by the crises of our own troubled epoch. While we
have not tried to be relevant in issue or policy terms, we have tried to
print articles in political theory that contribute to political understanding
in the broadest sense.
That the extensive interest in political theory goes well beyond the
academy is confirmed, readers may be interested to know, by several
recently announced publishing projects. A New York publisher plans to
issue a limited edition Founder's Library in 12 volumes which will
include Milton's Political Tracts, Harrington's Oceana, Locke's Two
Treatises, Molesworth's Account of Denmark, Sidney's Discourse, de
Rapin-Thoyras's Dissertation on the Whigs and Tories, Hutcheson's Moral
Philosophy, Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws, Gordan's Cato's Letters,
Bolingbroke's Patriot 'King, Baron's Pillars of Priestcraft, and Burgh's
Political Disquisitions. Although the price ($60 per volume) and the
bicentennial promotion surrounding the project suggest it is more a
commercial than a scholarly venture, it nevertheless strikes us as a tribute
to the vigor of our discipline's traditions.
Of perhaps even greater significance is the announcement by the
American Philosophical Association's Subcommittee on Translations that
it is planning to publish a series of new English translations of
philosophical works dating from the Renaissance to the early twentieth
century. Volumes in the series will present original texts and translations
on facing pages, together with scholarly introductions, indexes, and other
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