Bound by Recognition
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: August 11, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780691113814
Subjects: Ethics & moral philosophy; Political science & theory; Philosophy; History & Theory - General; Political; Philosophy / Political; Political Philosophy; Political Science and International Relations; Group identity; Difference (Philosophy); Equality; Justice; Multiculturalism
First sentence: IN HER CLASSIC STUDY OF MACHIAVELLI, Hanna Pitkin describes the political theorist's "special problem of communication" this way: "In order to be understood, he must speak in terms familiar to his audience, from within a conceptual framework and a understanding of the world that they share.