POLITICAL THEORY AND PARTISAN POLITICS -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I: Political Theory and the Constitutional Foundations of Partisan Politics -- 1. Political Theorists on the Legitimacy of Partisan Politics -- 2. Political Theory and Constitutional Construction -- 3. Constitutional Doctrine and Political Theory -- PART II: Theoretical Deliberation and Partisan Politics -- 4. Rationality in Liberal Politics -- 5. Deliberative Democracy and the Limits of Partisan Politics: Between Athens and Philadelphia -- 6. Working in Half-Truth: Some Premodern Reflections on Discourse Ethics in Politics -- PART III: Political Theory as Politics -- 7. Secularism, Partisanship and the Ambiguity of Justice -- 8. Political Theory and the Postmodern Politics of Ambiguity -- 9. Political Theory as Metapractice -- EPILOGUE -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- X.