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In this rich, elegant, and fascinating book, Susan McWilliams asks us to recall the Greek theoros -- the theorist-traveller who journeyed to other lands then returned home to describe the institutions and habits that he saw there, and the reasons and principles behind them. Ever since, shemaintains, travel and the imagination of travel has been an important source for thinking about political possibility... With a tour through works about travel, works by traveling theorists, and works imagining theoretically interesting travel -- from Herodotus through Montesquieu and Tocqueville toDuBois and Baldwin, among others -- she shows how much can be learned from travel and its theorists. She challenges how we have thought about the methods and boundaries of political theory at the same time that she lets us see familiar kinds of theory in new ways. This is a very fine piece ofhumanistic scholarship. --Jacob T. Levy, Tomlinson Professor of Political Theory, McGill University Susan McWilliams succeeds marvelously at making the familiar unfamiliar. Theoretically incisive and poetic, this elegantly written book makes a forceful case for ’traveling back’ through the Western tradition. --Anne Norton, Professor of Political Science and Comparative Literature, University ofPennsylvania
