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Judith Shklar called for a radical shift in political theory, toward a view of the history of ideas through the lens of exile. Hess takes this lens and applies it to Shklar´s own life and theoretical work.

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Introduction: ´The peculiarity of the kind of refugee I was´ 1. The Formative Years 2. In the Aftermath of Totalitarianism 3. The Making of a Political Theorist 4. Transatlantic Encounters of a Different Kind 5. Returning to the Theme of Exile

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"Hess´s monograph is the pioneer. That gives it a deserved prominence. ... The Political Theory of Judith N. Shklar. Exile from Exile is a short, lucid introduction to the thought of a writer who was always something of an anomaly within American political theory. ... Andreas Hess has written a searching, meticulous book on what shklar said." (Peter Baehr, Society, January, 2016)

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Andreas Hess is Senior Lecturer of Sociology at University College Dublin, Ireland and is Faculty Fellow at Yale´s Center for Cultural Sociology, USA. He is the author of a number of books, mainly in the field of American social and political thought.

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