Foreword by George Kate Editor's Preface by Stanley HoffmannPt. 1: Learning about Politics1: The Liberalism of Fear 2: Political Theory and the Rule of Law 3: Obligation, Loyalty, Exile 4: The Bonds of Exile Pt. 2: Learning about Thought5: Squaring the Hermeneutic Circle 6: Politics and the Intellect 7: Learning without Knowing 8: Subversive Genealogies 9: The Political Theory of Utopia: From Melancholy to Nostalgia 10: What Is the Use of Utopia? Pt. 3: Learning about Thinkers11: Poetry and the Political Imagination in Pope's An Essay on Man12: Ideology Hunting: The Case of James Harrington 13: Montesquieu and the New Republicanism 14: Reading the Social Contract 15: Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Equality 16: Jean D'Alembert and the Rehabilitation of History 17: Bergson and the Politics of Intuition 18: Nineteen Eighty-Four: Should Political Theory Care? 19: Rethinking the Past 20: Hannah Arendt as Pariah 21: The Work of Michael Walzer Index