![handle is hein.journals/ptxa41 and id is 1 raw text is: Political Theory
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I begin with a deep sense of appreciation for Mary Dietz, and for her labors
over the last six years on behalf of political theory, conceived both as a pro-
fession and as a style of critical thinking, writing, and perceiving. Political
Theory as a journal has prospered under the thoughtful, careful, and generous
stewardship of Mary and her editorial team of Terrell Carver and James Tully
(Consulting Editors), Don Herzog (Book Review Editor), and Ashley Biser,
Edward Gimbel, Ilya Winham, Qigdem Qidam, Ross Carroll, and Douglas
Thompson (Assistant Editors). Mary Dietz, like previous editors Benjamin
Barber, William Connolly, Tracy Strong, and Stephen White, has been a
staunch defender of theoretical pluralism and the highest quality scholarship.
It is a great honor to join their ranks and to renew these commitments.
Each editor has inflected the tenor of Political Theory and induced a new
sense of what can be included under its banner. I too hope to tilt the trajectory
of scholarly attention, in my case toward contemporary public problems and
events that plague, surprise, and inspire. I incline this way because, for me,
what is invaluable about the (historical, conceptual, poetic) art of thinking
called political theory is that it aspires to help us live better - to identify,
invent, and pursue paths through which a more vital, less violent, more sus-
tainable collective life might unfold. This is a political theory sympathetic to
John Dewey's belief that philosophy recovers itself when it ceases to be a
device for dealing with the problems of philosophers and becomes a method,
cultivated by philosophers, for dealing with the problems of men [sic]. The
hope here is that careful theoretical reflection upon the concepts, ideals, nar-
ratives, perceptions, arguments, comportments, spatial arrangements, and
moods of public life can, however indirectly and tentatively, help build a
better world. Political theory must include rigorous argument, but at its best
it also moves its readers and inspires creative ways of inhabiting politics.
Because everyday life mixes the political, the aesthetic, the economic, the
sensuous, and the bioethical, I am also drawn toward scholarship that experi-
ments with vocabularies, themes, and modes of inquiry from other disci-
plines. There is fine political-theoretical work being done , for example, in
human geography, literature and rhetoric, anthropology, visual culture, and
architectural studies, to name just a few.](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.journals/ptxa41&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)
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