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Matt,
The best thing to read is the expanded edition of Politics and Vision. For shorter introductions, I’d recommend his essays “Political Theory as a Vocation” (APSR, 1969) and “Fugitive Democracy” (Constellations, 1994). Let me know what you think!
More Thoughts on Missing Influences in the Legal Academy
Thanks to everyone who has contributed responses to my question about missing influences in the legal academy. I have a few reflections prompted by the comments to date. Some of the back-and-forth has gestured toward the difference between citations and influence. (I know this is a much-debat...
I would give Big Man On Campus an honorable mention:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096925/
It's not quite in the same league as the others on this list, but it gets a little credit for being a 1980s comedy that breaks from the frat/sports themes. And bonus points for having a character named Bob Malooga Looga Looga Looga Looga.
The Top Ten Academic Films
Lavelle Porter, writing for the CUNY Graduate Center Advocate, has authored The University On Screen: The Top 10 Academic Films. In his opening remarks, Porter states: "In this particular list I evaluate some films that in some way try to address the meaning of higher education. T...
Thanks much for these comments. Jacob Levy’s insights (linked by Matt above) are very helpful, and make me realize that I should have expressly acknowledged the non-overlapping aspects of political theory, political philosophy, and legal theory in suggesting that they fit together like a Venn diagram. That said, my own experience echo’s Levy observation that at conferences with political theorists and political philosophers, “there’s an air of, ah, now here are people who understand each other.” I've only been at this for a few years, but the best example of interdisciplinarity that I’ve witnessed was at the annual meeting of the American Society of Political and Legal Philosophy (http://www.political-theory.org), which drew participants from law, philosophy, and political science.
Since I don’t really know the answer to Al’s good question, I’ll punt with a non-responsive response. One route to the kind of data about which Al asks may be through intellectual histories of political theory. I’ve benefited greatly from John Gunnell’s work, especially his Imaging the American Polity and The Descent of Political Theory. While Gunnell’s approach isn’t quantitative, his sources might point toward some of the data about which Al asks.
Political Theory and Law
Al’s recent post highlighting Mary Bilder’s article on Madison as lawyer versus Madison as political theorist reminded me that the connections between these two enterprises are not always self-evident. Political theorists occasionally glaze over when I talk about “the law,” and their ambivalenc...
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