POLITICAL THEORY
An International Journal of Political Philosophy

Editor STEPHEN K. WHITE University of Virginia
Consulting Editor J. DONALD MOON Wesleyan University
Book Review Editor JANE BENNETT Johns Hopkins University
Assistant Editor and Political Theory Fellow NICHOLAS TAMPIO 
        University of Virginia and John Hopkins University

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DAN DISALVO

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Volume 32, Number 2 / April 2004                      

From the Editor

                  Stephen K. White

145

ARTICLES   

Special Section: Levinas: Some Irreverence  
       Levinas and Political Theory

                  C.Fred Alford

146
       Five Problems in Levinas's View of Politics and the Sketch of a Solution to Them

                  Simon Critchley

172
Socrates' Contest with the Poets in Plato's Symposium

                  Mary P. Nichols

186
Status, Identity and Respect

                 Colin Bird

207

REVIEW ESSAYS

Regarding the Imperial State

     Scott, Seeing Like a State                    

     Sen, Development as Freedom                                          

     Mehta, Liberalism and Empire

              Ellis Goldberg

233

Nouveau Elites

     Pels, The Intellectual as Stranger: Studies in Spokespersonship 

     Sabl, Ruling Passions: Political Offices and Democratic Elites

              John Seery

242

Back to Adorno? Critical Social Theory between Past and Future

       Morris, Rethinking the Communicative Turn: Adorno, Habermas, and the Problem of Communicative Freedom

       Bernstein, Adorno: Disenchantment and Ethics

       Apostolidis, Stations of the Cross: Adorno and Christian Right Radio

       Kruks, Experience: Subjectivity and Recognition in Feminist Politics

               Andreas Kalyvas

247
Hobbes Out of Bonds

        van Mill, Liberty, Rationality, and Agency in Hobbes's Leviathan

        Overhoff, Hobbes's Theory of the Will: Ideological Reasons and Historical Circumstances

        Slomp, Thomas Hobbes and the Political Philosophy of Glory

        Zarka, La Decision Metaphysique de Hobbes: Conditions de la Politique

        Zarka, Hobbes et la Pense Politique Moderne

                Samantha Frost

257

BOOKS IN REVIEW  
Hirschmann, The Subject of Liberty

                Alan Wertheimer

274
Findlay, Caring for the Soul in a Postmodern Age: Politics and Phenemenology in the Thought of Jan Patocka

                Peter Lom

277
Shapiro, For Moral Ambiguity: National Culture and the Politics of the Family

              Michael Hanchard

279


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