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While most of Political Theory's 50th anniversary issue looks forward to imagining political theory in the future, the Book Review section looks backward to consider those books and schools of political theory not reviewed on the pages of the journal—but which went on to shape the field nonetheless. The aim of this section is not to constitute a new and newly virtuous canon, but rather to goad readers to reflect anew on knowledge production and the institutional and circulatory practices that compose it, reaching from journal readers, to classrooms and conferences, and on to late night conversations and confabulations.

'Theorizing revolutions' edited by John Foran is reviewed.

Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Part I: Conceptualizing Power -- Chapter 1 Introducing Key Issues -- Introduction -- Physical versus social power -- Power 'to' versus power 'over' -- Asymmetrical versus balanced power -- Power as structures versus agents -- Actual versus potential power -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2 Meet the Family - Domination, Authority and Legitimacy -- Introduction -- The 'dominant' academic discourse on power -- Bringing authority and legitimacy back in -- Max Weber's complicated legacy -- Recapitulation -- Power, modernity and ambivalence -- Part II: Theorizing Power -- Chapter 3 European Sources -- Introduction -- Early modern harbingers: Machiavelli and Hobbes -- Theorists of modernity: Marx, Durkheim and Weber -- Return to Italy: classical elitism and Gramsci -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4 American Debates -- Introduction -- Power: community structures and national elites -- The power of positive function -- Power hides its face -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5 Epistemological Approaches -- Introduction -- Barnes: self-fulfilling prophecies -- Foucault: power/knowledge -- Actor-networks, 'realrationalität' and the ghost of Machiavelli -- Bourdieu: the practice of power -- On language and culture -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6 Evolutionary Approaches -- Introduction -- Energy, technology and evolution -- Two philosophic histories -- Modes, forms and sources of power -- Conclusion -- Part III: Investigating Power -- Chapter 7 Domination, Authority and Legitimacy in Liberal Society -- Introduction -- State, economy, and the 'memorable alliance' -- Civil society -- Public and private -- Competition as legitimation -- Conclusion -- Chapter 8 Religion and Morality -- Introduction -- Human limits and explanations of religion -- Religion as reflecting the social constitution of power relations.