Theory and Practice: Nomos XXXVII

Published by New York University Press 1995

Theory and Practice

Nomos XXXVII

Edited by: Ian Shapiro and Judith Wagner Decew

Volume 2 in the series NOMOS - American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy

https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479827879.001.0001

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About this book

With 16 original essays all published here for the first time, Theory and Practice focuses on the relationship between philosophical tradition and everyday life in the Western tradition. In this comprehensive volume, Ian Shapiro and Judith Wagner DeCew have gathered contributions from some of the most influential thinkers of our generation including Cass Sunnstein, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Martha Nussbaum, Jeremy Waldron, and Kent Greenwalt.
What are the relations between philosophical theories and everyday life? This question, as old as it is profound, is the central focus of Theory and Practice. The contributors include some of the most influential thinkers of our generation, among them Cass Sunnstein, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Martha Nessbaum, Jeremy Waldron, and Kent Greenwalt. In sixteen chapters--all published here for the first timethe authors examine major attempts to reconcile theory with practice in the Western tradition from Herodotus, Plato, and Aristotle to Kant and Heidegger.
Considerable attention is devoted to the role of theory in judicial decision-making, debates between defenders of the value of pure theory and those who argue for the priority of practice, the political implications of theory, practical problems such as global warming, and the theoretical commitments of practitioners from Karl Marx to Vaclav Havel. One of the most expansive volumes in the NOMOS series to date, Theory and Practice will be of interest to philosophers, lawyers, and social scientists from a wide range of disciplines.

Author / Editor information

Shapiro Ian :

Ian Shapiro is Sterling Professor of Political Science at Yale University, where he also serves as Henry R. Luce Director of the Yale Center for International and Area Studies. He is the editor or author of numerous books, most recently Political Contingency (NYU Press) and Rethinking Political Institutions (NYU Press).Decew Judith Wagner :

Judith Wagner DeCew is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Clark University.

Reviews

Jeffrey C. Isaac,Indiana University:
An impressive collection of essays on a central problem of political theory. I recommend it highly.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
NOMOS Publicly Available Download PDF	ii
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Introduction Judith Wagner Decew and Ian Shapiro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART I: FOUNDATIONS OF THE DEBATE ON THEORY AND PRACTICE
1. The Decline and Repudiation of the Whole: Notes on Aristotle's Enclosure of the Pre-Socratic World Norma Thompson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
2. Kant on Theory and Practice Jeffrie G. Murphy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
PART II: THE VALUE OF PURE THEORY
3. High Theory, Low Theory, and the Demands of Morality Frances M. Kamm Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
4. Psychological Realism and Moral Theory David B. Wong Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	108
5. What Plato Would Allow Jeremy Waldron Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	138
PART III: ARGUMENTS FOR T H E PRIORITY OF PRACTICE
6. "Lawyer for Humanity:" Theory and Practice in Ancient Political Thought Martha C. Nussbaum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
7. The Theoretical Importance of Practice Susan J. Brison Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	216
8. Avoidable Necessity: Global Warming, International Fairness, and Alternative Energy Henry Shue Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	239
PART IV: THEORY AND PRACTICE IN THE LAW
9. On Legal Theory and Legal Practice Cass R. Sunstein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
10. Religious Resistance to the Kantian Sovereign Stephen L. Carter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	288
11. On Regulating Practices with Theories Drawn from Them: A Case of Justice as Fairness Frank I. Michelman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	309
PART V: THE PUBLIC IMPLICATIONS OF THEORY
12. Public Practical Reason: Political Practice Gerald J. Postema Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	345
13. " Truth" or Consequences Kent Greenawalt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	386
PART VI: PRACTITIONERS AS THEORISTS
14. The End of Morality? Theory, Practice, and the "Realistic Outlook" of Karl Marx John Kane Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	403
15. Heidegger and Political Philosophy: The Theory of His Practice Steven B. Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	440
16. A Performer of Political Thought: Václav Havel on Freedom and Responsibility Jean Bethke Elshtain Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	464
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	483

Language: English
Publisher: New York University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;

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Published: May 1, 1995
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