Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright imformation -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Propositions and Practical Action -- 1.1 The Myth of the Mental -- 1.2 Tacit Belief and Intelligent Performance -- 1.3 Memory and Awareness -- 1.4 Propositional Discourse -- 1.5 Political Action as Practical Action -- 2 Belief, Truth, and Knowledge -- 2.1 Implicit Belief -- 2.2 Truth and Dependence -- 2.3 Justification and the Problem of Mind and World -- 2.4 Holism, Constructivism and Irrefutability -- 2.5 Structures of Belief -- 3 Rationalism in Politics -- 3.1 Structures of Political Belief
3.2 Action and Performance -- 3.3 Political Theory and the Ubiquity of Reason -- 3.4 Political Exceptionalism and the Problem of Pluralism -- 3.5 Rationalism in Politics -- Index
Summary
Argues for the discourse of truth-both 'factual' and 'rational'-as an essential and defining feature of political enterprise
