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 |
|---|---|
| Michel Aflaq | — |
| Sati al-Husri | political thinker |
| George Antonius | political thinker |
| T. H. Green | political philosopher |
| L. T. Hobhouse | — |
| Paul Lafargue | socialist theorist |
| Pavel Pestel | political thinker |
|
Nam Xuan
surface form:
Truong Chinh
|
— |
|
José Julián
surface form:
José Martí
|
political philosopher |
| Mikhail Speransky | political philosopher |
| Niccolò Machiavelli | political philosopher |
| Karl Korsch | Marxist theorist |
| Nicos Poulantzas | Marxist theorist |
| Perry Anderson | Marxist intellectual |
| Henri Lefebvre | Marxist theorist |
| Max Stirner | political philosopher |
| John Milton | — |
| Joseph Priestley | — |
| Walter Lippmann | — |
| Ralph Miliband | — |
|
Malatesta
surface form:
Errico Malatesta
|
political philosopher |
| George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax | political philosopher |
| Algernon Sidney | — |
| Zaki al-Arsuzi | political thinker |
| César De Paepe | — |
|
Emer
surface form:
Emer de Vattel
|
legal philosopher |
| Edgar Jung | political thinker |
| Julius Martov | Marxist theorist |
| Sheldon Wolin | — |
| Ben Turok | Marxist theorist |
| King Janaka | philosopher-king |
| Leo Löwenthal | Frankfurt School theorist |
| James Connolly | — |
| Dong Zhongshu | political philosopher |
| Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun | political philosopher |
| John Berger | Marxist intellectual |
|
John
surface form:
John C. Calhoun
|
— |
| Maxine Greene | feminist philosopher |
| Apolinario Mabini | political philosopher |
|
John Taylor
surface form:
John Taylor of Caroline
|
political philosopher |
| Leonard Woolf | — |
| Edmund Burke | political philosopher |
| Hans Kelsen | legal theorist |
| Ber Borochov | — |
| Lucio Colletti | Marxist theorist |
| Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès | — |
| Sir Robert Filmer | — |
| Bolesław Limanowski | — |
| Dai Jitao | — |
| Thomas Day | political thinker |