...Ethel Wolfskill Hedlin Black Political Parties: An Historical and Political Analysis . By Walton Hanes Jr. New York : The Free Press , 1972 . Pp. 276 . $7.95 . Copyright © 1974 by Duke University Press 1974 276 The South Atlantic Quarterly Black Political Parties...

...Lewis Bowman Copyright © 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 Political Stability, Political Conflict, and Methodological Artifacts Lewis Bowman I Despite repeated deviations at the polls, Southern voters have been reluctant to change their attachments from the Democratic party...

... called U.S. political romanticism. This romanticism envisions a highly functional form of inclusive political deliberation that is now absent from U.S. political life and which Obama seemed to enable by telling the truth in public about complicated private states of feeling. Obama's mishandling...

...Catherine Kevin This essay examines narratives of early miscarriage in the contexts of the history of the medicalization of pregnancy and abortion politics. It argues that the significance of early miscarriage has increased with the medicalization of pregnancy but expressions of this significance...

...Bruce Buchan This paper explores the figurative significance of Niccolò Machiavelli's lurid account in The Prince of the death scene of Remirro de Orco in Cesena in 1502. This death scene represents a fundamental challenge to the ancient metaphor of the body politic whose health consisted...

...Oliver Marchart This essay explores the consequences of a recent development in political thought: the differentiation between the concepts of politics and the political (in French, la politique and le politique ) as it emerged in the work of Jean-Luc Nancy, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Claude Lefort...

...Barnor Hesse Modern political theory has traditionally exorcised the meaning of black politics from its conceptual landscape. The poststructuralist distinction between politics and the political potentially offers radical possibilities for thinking against this. Its emphasis on contingency...

... of exploitation. Mainstream macroeconomics represents the watershed changes in world capitalism in the 1970s as due to technical improvements in economic theory and policy, thereby obscuring the underlying political economy of those changes. Globalized financial capitalism eliminated upward wage pressures...

...Gerard Aching In The Wretched of the Earth , Frantz Fanon intimates to the reader that including his psychiatric notes in the book might be considered “out of place or untimely” for the cause of political decolonization that he advocates in it. This essay examines the theoretical implications...

...Ann Fabian Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 Ann Fabian Gamblers in the Garden: The Political Consequences of the Fix The fall I was studying for orals, I lived next door to a man named Pete. That summer, Pete had divorced a wife, gotten rid of a hardware store, and like me...

...Victoria Kahn Victoria Kahn Political Theology and Reason of State in Samson Agonistes In his treatise on Political Theology of 1922, Carl Schmitt defined the sovereign as he who de­ cides on the exception. 1 Schmitt, a conservative scholar of constitutional law during the Weimar Republic...

...Thomas Pfau Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 Thomas Pfau Beyond the Suburbs of the Mind : The Political and Aesthetic Disciplining of the Romantic Body He disposes the world in categories, thus: The peopled and the unpeopled. In both, he is Alone. But in the peopled world...

...J. Peter Euben J. Peter Euben When There Are Cray Skies: Aristophanes Clouds and the Political Education of Democratic Citizens Is there anyone here I haven t offended? Lenny Bruce Lord, heap miseries upon us yet entwine our arts with laughter s low. In the name of the former and of the latter...

...Bill Nichols Copyright © 1989 by Duke University Press 1989 Bill Nichols Form Wars: The Political Unconscious of Formalist Theory N arrative s not the thing it used to be. More than standing as one form of artistic expres­ sion to be worried over by those attending to the nature of art...

...Frank Warren Socialism in History: Political Essays of Henry Pachter . Edited by Bronner Stephen Erich . New York : Columbia University Press , 1984 . Pp. xi , 361 . Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 Book Reviews 107 subversive of classical epic ideals. Thus...

...Stephen J. Whitfield Liberation and Its Limits: The Moral and Political Thought of Freud . By Abramson Jeffrey B. . New York : Free Press , 1984 . Pp. x , 160 . $14.95 . Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 Book Reviews 197 Lamis chronicles the death of the old...

...William G. Shade Origins of American Political Parties, 1789-1803 . By Hoadley John F. . Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky , 1986 . Pp. xii , 257 . $24.00 . Copyright © 1987 by Duke University Press 1987 Book Reviews 343 social struggle aimed at reforming...

...David J. Garrow Invisible Politics: Black Political Behavior . By Walton Hanes Jr. Albany : State University of New York Press , 1985 . Pp. xxii , 366 . Cloth $36.50 , paper $12.95 . Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 3io The South Atlantic Quarterly The richest...

...Monroe Billington Claude A. Swanson of Virginia: A Political Biography . By Ferrell Henry C. Jr. Lexington : University Press of Kentucky , 1985 . Pp. x , 294 . Copyright © 1987 by Duke University Press 1987 Book Reviews 91 between writing and publication lessens the value...

...Robert A. Garson Copyright © 1985 by Duke University Press 1985 Proslavery as Political Theory: The Examples of John C. Calhoun and George Fitzhugh Robert A. Garson Most scholarly writing on the history of political thought in America has treated the antebellum South s defense of slavery...