Volume 27, Number 4 / August 1999

Thucydides on Nature
C.D.C. Reeve
435

FREEDOM AND FOUNDATIONS
East Meets West–Jan Patocka and Richard Rorty on Freedom:
A Czech Philosopher Brought into Dialogue with American Postmodernism
Petr Lom
447
Castles in the Air:
An Essay on Political Foundations
John E. Seery
460
The Architectonic of Michael Walzer's Theory of Justice
Govert den Hartogh
491
Max Weber's Reconceptualization of Freedom
Kari Palonen
523

REVIEW ESSAY
Judith Butler and the Politics of the Performative
Butler, Excitable Speech:
A Politics of the Performative
Butler, The Psychic Life of Power:
Theories in Subjection
Lisa Disch
545

BOOKS IN REVIEW
Bickford, The Dissonance of Democracy:
Listening, Conflict, and Citizenship
Robert Pirro
560
Dienstag, Dancing in Chains:
Narrative and Memory in Political Theory
Peter Lindsay
562
Smith, Civic Ideals:
Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. History
Ira Katznelson
565
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