Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- PART IThe concept of the individual -- 1 Communitarianism and its legacy -- 2 Identity, diversity and the politics of recognition -- PART II Citizenship, democracy and the nature of the political in conditions of social diversity -- 3 The new feminism -- 4 Cultural diversity and the limits of liberalism -- 5 Citizenship beyond the nation state: the case of Europe -- 6 For an agonistic model of democracy -- 7 Power, authority and legitimacy: a critique of postmodern political thought -- PART III The significance of national and global contexts -- 8 Nationalism and political theory -- 9 Globalization, the nation state and political theory -- 10 The borders of (international) political theory -- PART IV The nature and limits of political theory -- 11 Political theory and the environment: the grey and the green (and the in-between) -- 12 Political theory in retreat? Contemporary political theory and the historical order -- 13 Theorizing political theory -- Index.