political theorist
C953
concept
A political theorist is a scholar who systematically analyzes, critiques, and constructs ideas about power, governance, justice, and the organization of political communities.
All labels observed (28)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| political theorist canonical | 140 |
| political philosopher | 124 |
| Marxist theorist | 59 |
| political thinker | 53 |
| legal philosopher | 16 |
| Marxist intellectual | 13 |
| critical theorist | 13 |
| legal theorist | 13 |
| feminist philosopher | 9 |
| socialist theorist | 5 |
| libertarian theorist | 4 |
| Frankfurt School theorist | 3 |
| anti-colonial theorist | 3 |
| conservative thinker | 3 |
| libertarian thinker | 3 |
| anarchist thinker | 2 |
| communist theorist | 2 |
| philosopher-king | 2 |
| political intellectual | 2 |
| 政治思想家 | 2 |
| American political theorist | 1 |
| Christian democratic theorist | 1 |
| anarchist theorist | 1 |
| classical liberal scholar | 1 |
| liberal philosopher | 1 |
| political theorists | 1 |
| republican theorist | 1 |
| 政治哲学者 | 1 |
Description generation (CDg)
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Instruction
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Input
Class: political theorist
Generated description
A political theorist is a scholar who systematically analyzes, critiques, and constructs ideas about power, governance, justice, and the organization of political communities.
Instances (444)
| Instance | Via concept surface |
|---|---|
| Onora O’Neill | political philosopher |
| José Ortega y Gasset | political philosopher |
| James Mill | — |
| Melissa Lane | political philosopher |
| Carl Schmitt | legal theorist |
|
Stuckart
surface form:
Wilhelm Stuckart
|
legal theorist |
| Alexis de Tocqueville | political thinker |
| Michael Oakeshott | political philosopher |
| Frantz Fanon | anti-colonial theorist |
| Thomas McCarthy | critical theorist |
| Thomas Hobbes | political philosopher |
|
Linden
surface form:
Hannah Arendt
|
— |
| Aijaz Ahmad | Marxist intellectual |
| Susan Sherwin | feminist philosopher |
| Jeremy Bentham | legal theorist |
| John Rawls | political philosopher |
| Heinrich Blücher | political thinker |
| Maurice Spector | Marxist theorist |
| Fredric Jameson | Marxist theorist |
| Susan Buck-Morss | critical theorist |
| Lord Bolingbroke | political philosopher |
| Clara Zetkin | Marxist theorist |
| Isaiah Berlin | political philosopher |
| Jürgen Habermas | political philosopher |
| Beatrice Webb | — |
| Giorgio Agamben | political philosopher |
|
Datuk Tan Malaka
surface form:
Tan Malaka
|
Marxist theorist |
| Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke | political philosopher |
| Aristotle | political philosopher |
| Mao Zedong | — |
| Murray Bookchin | political philosopher |
| Thomas Jefferson | political philosopher |
| Edvard Kardelj | — |
| Harriet Hardy | feminist philosopher |
| John Finnis | legal philosopher |
| James Bohman | political philosopher |
|
Sutan Ibrahim
surface form:
Tan Malaka
|
Marxist theorist |
| Maurice Cowling | political thinker |
| Leo Strauss | political philosopher |
| Karl Kautsky | Marxist theorist |
| Alasdair MacIntyre | political philosopher |
| Eduard Bernstein | socialist theorist |
| John Gardner (philosopher) | legal philosopher |
| Carlo Pisacane | — |
| Martha Nussbaum | political philosopher |
| Walter Bagehot | — |
| Baruch Spinoza | political philosopher |
| Joshua Cohen | political philosopher |
| Friedrich Pollock | critical theorist |
|
Margaret Fox Rawls
surface form:
John Rawls
|
political philosopher |