Political Judgement Book

List of contributors vii

Acknowledgments viii

Introduction Richard Bourke Raymond Geuss 1

Part I The character of political judgement 27

1 What is political judgement? Raymond Geuss 29

2 Sticky judgement and the role of rhetoric Victoria Mcgeer Philip Pettit 47

3 Theory and practice: the revolution in political judgement Richard Bourke 73

Part II Trust, judgement and consent 111

4 On trusting the judgement of our rulers Quentin Skinner 113

5 Adam Smith's history of law and government as political theory Istvan Hont 131

6 Marxism in translation: critical reflections on Indian radical thought Sudipta Kaviraj 172

Part III Rationality and judgement 201

7 Pericles' unreason Geoffrey Hawthorn 203

8 Accounting for human actions: individual agency and political judgement in Montaigne's Essais Biancamaria Fontana 229

9 Nehru's judgement Sunil Khilnani 254

Part IV Democracy and modern political judgement 279

10 Democracy, equality and redistribution Adam Przeworski 281

11 Democracy and terrorism Richard Tuck 313

Bibliography of the works of John Dunn 333

Index 344