Political Philosophy
Political philosophy is best defined in comparison to political science: one attempts to understand politics from first principles, reasoned outward, in a coherent and consistent theory; the other attempts to understand politics from observations and theories of what explains the variance therein. This page addresses the former.
Citizenship
Governance
Reading Notes
Who Governs? Democracy and Power in an American City, Robert Dahl, 1961
Truth and Politics, Hannah Arendt, 1967
Lying In Politics, Hannah Arendt, 1971
Theorizing Acts of Citizenship, Engin Isin, 2008
Performative Citizenship, Engin Isin, 2017
The Greatest and Most Important Human Right, Lamis Abdelaaty, 2024