Thinking Outside the Canon: Political Theory as Textual Odyssey

Author/Contributor(s):	Shapiro, Michael J
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Date:	08/07/2025
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Thinking Outside the Canon traces author Michael J. Shapiro's intellectual journey as a preeminent political theorist who adapts multidisciplinary practices to develop a more diverse, text-attuned model. Shapiro works to theorize textuality and historiography, drawing on a variety of disciplinary idioms to develop an approach to political theory that moves beyond the traditional canon, incorporating texts that span across genres and geographies. Ranging from Caribbean fiction to Ukraine war fictional ethnographies, and covering an array of spaces from the state to the individual room, Thinking Outside the Canon represents how the field of Political Theory has grown and shifted through the author's own textual odyssey.