The Political Theory of Judith N. Shklar

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Introduction: “The Peculiarity of the Kind of Refugee I Was”

   • Andreas Hess

   Pages 1-22

3. The Formative Years: From Riga to Montreal

   • Andreas Hess

   Pages 23-37

4. In the Aftermath of Totalitarianism

   • Andreas Hess

   Pages 39-74

5. The Making of a Political Theorist

   • Andreas Hess

   Pages 75-134

6. Transatlantic Encounters of a Different Kind

   • Andreas Hess

   Pages 135-176

7. Returning to the Theme of Exile

   • Andreas Hess

   Pages 177-201

8. Back Matter

   Pages 203-235

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Judith Shklar called for a radical shift in political theory, toward a view of the history of ideas through the lens of exile. Hess takes this lens and applies it to Shklar's own life and theoretical work.

• history of ideas
• political theory
• work

“Hess’s monograph is the pioneer. That gives it a deserved prominence. … The Political Theory of Judith N. Shklar. Exile from Exile is a short, lucid introduction to the thought of a writer who was always something of an anomaly within American political theory. … Andreas Hess has written a searching, meticulous book on what shklar said.” (Peter Baehr, Society, January, 2016)

"A compelling intellectual biography of one the most original political thinkers of the post-war generation. Hess draws insightfully on Shklar's understanding of exile and emigration to help articulate her distinctive vision of social and political life." - Bernard Yack, Lerman Neubauer Professor of Democracy and Public Policy, Brandeis University, USA

"This superb book is a worthy tribute to a major political theorist by one of the leading European experts on North American social and political thought." William Outhwaite, Professor of Sociology, Newcastle University, UK

Andreas Hess is Senior Lecturer of Sociology at University College Dublin, Ireland and is Faculty Fellow at Yale's Center for Cultural Sociology, USA. He is the author of a number of books, mainly in the field of American social and political thought.

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