Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Calling in Question -- I: INVOKING POLITICAL THEORY -- 1 Political Theory: From Vocation to Invocation -- II: THEORIZING LOSS -- 2 Specters and Angels at the End of History -- 3 The Politics of Nostalgia and Theories of Loss -- III: THINKING IN TIME -- 4 Can Theorists Make Time for Belief? -- 5 The History of Political Thought as a "Vocation": A Pragmatist Defense -- IV: POLITICS AND THE ORDINARY -- 6 Political Theory for Losers -- 7 Feminism's Flight from the Ordinary -- V: POLITICAL KNOWLEDGE -- 8 Conceptions of Science in Political Theory: A Tale of Cloaks and Daggers -- 9 Political Theory as a Provocation: An Ethos of Political Theory -- 10 Gramsci, Organic Intellectuals, and Cultural Studies: Lessons for Political Theorists -- VI: PRACTICING POLITICAL THEORY -- 11 Reading the Body: Hobbes, Body Politics, and the Vocation of Political Theory -- 12 Work, Shame, and the Chain Gang: The New Civic Education -- 13 The Nobility of Democracy -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.