Contents -- Abbreviations -- I. BEARINGS -- 1. Reappraising Political Theory -- 2. Whither Political Theory? -- II. REAPPRAISALS -- 3. Machiavelli and Moral Change -- 4. Hobbes's Linguistic Turn -- 5. Rousseau's Civil Religion Reconsidered -- 6. The Survivor and the Savant: Two Schemes for Civil Religion Compared -- 7. Benthamite Discipline and Punishment -- or, What Foucault Missed -- 8. Utilitarianism, Feminism, and the Franchise -- 9. Vico and Marx on 'Making' History -- 10. Marx and Darwin: A Reconsideration -- 11. Constitutional Interpretation: What's Wrong with 'Original Intent'? -- 12. The Myth of Adam and American Identity -- Select Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W.