Editorial: The comparative study of political thinking

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Notes

 1. E.g. F. Dallmayr (Ed.), Border Crossings (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 1999).

 2. See M. Richter, ‘More than a two-way traffic: Analyzing, translating, and comparing political concepts from other cultures’, Contributions to the History of Concepts, 1 (1), 2005, pp. 7–19.

 3. See e.g. P. den Boer, ‘Civilization: Comparing concepts and identities’, Contributions to the History of Concepts, 1 (1), 2005, pp. 51–62.

 4. J. Hamburger, Intellectuals in Politics: John Stuart Mill and the Philosophic Radicals (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1963).

 5. G. Duncan, Marx and Mill (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1973).

 6. See also R. Nisbet, History of the Idea of Progress (New York: Basic Books, 1980).

 7. R. Koselleck, The Practice of Conceptual History (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2002).

 8. J. Rawls, The Law of Peoples (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999).

 9. M. Freeden, ‘What should the “political” in political theory explore?’, Journal of Political Philosophy, 13, 2005, pp. 113–134.

10. M. Freeden, Ideologies and Political Theory: A Conceptual Approach (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996), Chapter 2.

11. J.L. Austin, How to Do Things with Words (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1975).

12. For an illuminating discussion of such differences see M. Takeshi Hirose, ‘Liberalism, Pluralism and the Limits of Deliberative Legitimation’, Oxford D.Phil. thesis, 2003.