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Article: Tessitore, Aristide, ed. Aristotle and Modern Politics: the Persistence of Political Philosophy.(Book Review)
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- Perspectives on Political Science
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- March 22, 2003
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Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press 438 pp., $32.95, ISBN 0-268-02014-0 Publication Date: April 2002
Scholars are always hawking their wares, urging us to trade stale opinions for the freshest theories money can buy. It is no surprise, then, that political theorists should line up to criticize the most celebrated treatise of the previous generation, Rawls's A Theory of Justice. Nor is it odd that some should offer, in place of Rawlsian liberalism, a postmodern, "willful" or "agonistic" vision of democratic politics. The shock comes when we notice others advocating a very different alternative: Aristotle. Truly to be cutting-edge, it seems, we should dust ...