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Moral and Political Education: NOMOS LXIII. Edited by Stephen Macedo and Yael Tamir. New York: New York University Press, 2002. 484p. $55.00

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 January 2004

Jack Crittenden
Affiliation:
Arizona State University

Extract

I would not be surprised—indeed, I would be gratified—if some professor built a course in political philosophy around one, or several, of the books in the Nomos series, yearly collections since 1958 based on papers given at the annual meeting of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy. These collections deal with current topical themes in politics and political philosophy. The articles in the collections are reliably rigorous yet accessible, well crafted, learned, provocative, and well selected. Stephen Macedo and Yael Tamir's collection, Moral and Political Education is no different. I am not sure, however, how well this collection would fit, without substantial empirical supplementation, as the core for a course in political theory. Political theory differs, to my mind, from political philosophy by the amount of attention theorists give to the real world of politics. In this book, insufficient attention is given to political reality.

Type
Book Reviews
Copyright
2003 by the American Political Science Association

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