Environmentalism and Political Theory: Toward an Ecocentric Approach. By Robyn Eckersley. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992. 274p. $44.50 cloth, $14.95 paper.

1993 ◽  
Vol 87 (3) ◽  
pp. 765-765 ◽  
Author(s):  
John S. Dryzek
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
State University

Political Theory and Partisan Politics. Edited by Edward Bryan Portis, Adolf G. Gunderson, and Ruth Lessl Shively. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000. 226p. $59.50 cloth, $19.50 paper.

2001 ◽  
Vol 95 (2) ◽  
pp. 467-468
Author(s):  
James S. Fishkin
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
Partisan Politics ◽  
State University ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The One ◽  
Standing Problem

What is the role of political theory in a world of partisan politics? Various approaches to this long-standing problem are raised in this stimulating collection of essays. Arlene Saxonhouse begins the volume by usefully reminding us of Plato's metaphor of the ship in book 6 of the Republic, in which self-interested sailors fight over the boat's direction "while the one who knows how to guide the boat, who can read the stars, stands aft staring upward and is considered useless" (p. 19). Similarly in the Assembly, self-interested rhetoricians may sway the crowd, without any concern for the pursuit of truth.

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