Some chapters reprinted from a special issue of the periodical Political theory (v. 30, no. 4), published 2002.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pluralism, platitudes, and paradoxes : Western political thought at the beginning of a new century / Stephen K. White -- The current state of political theory : pluralism and reconciliation / J. Donald Moon -- The adequacy of the Western canon / George Kateb -- Politicizing theory / Adriana Cavarero -- Political philosophy as a critical activity / James Tully -- At the edge / Wendy Brown -- Globalizing political theory / Roland Bleiker -- Traveling theorists and translating practices / Roxanne L. Euben -- Political theory, political science, and politics / Ruth W. Grant -- Problems, methods, and theories : what's wrong with political science and what to do about it / Ian Shapiro.