If you teach courses in political economy, political philosophy, or social science methodology, you might consider adopting
Dialogues concerning Natural Politics as a teaching text. The book is free to all teachers and students for whatever use.
- The book is designed to promote in-class discussion. Each chapter of the book addresses a distinct topic or problem of political analysis. Many of the topics raised are purposely left unresolved, leaving room for further discussion and debate.
- Each chapter concludes with suggestions for further reading and a set of discussion questions that might be either assigned as homework, employed as exam questions, or used to promote further dialogue and debate in the classroom.
- The book carefully avoids partisan stances on substantive political matters. Indeed, the book is critical, in about equal measure, of both the left and right endpoints of the political spectrum.
- Dialogues offers a model of civil discourse concerning various fraught political controversies. In an era of political polarization, the book offers a reminder of what genuine civic (and civil) discourse looks like.
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