John G. Gunnell, Distinguished
Professor of Political Science,
specializes in Political Theory
with particular emphases on the
philosophy of social science, the
history of political science, and
the history of political theory.
Recent work includes The Descent
of Political Theory: The Genealogy
of an American Vocation (1993); The Orders of Discourse:
Philosophy, Social Science, and
Politics (1998); and Imagining the American Polity: Political Science and the Discourse of Democracy (2004).