From the Editors

• Author: Joshua Foa Dienstag,Elisabeth Ellis,Nancy Luxon,Davide Panagia
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1177/00905917221113343
• Published date: 01 October 2022
• Date: 01 October 2022
• Subject Matter: Editorial

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Political Theory

2022, Vol. 50(5) 671 –672

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Editorial

From the Editors

We note with sadness the passing of Professor Tracy B. Strong (1943–2022),

an admired scholar, colleague, and former editor of this journal. Tracy was

editor from 1990 to 2000, during which time he worked to diversify the jour-

nal’s authorship and editorial board, efforts that have improved the journal

and that continue to be central to our editorial mission.

Deeply rooted in ordinary language philosophy, as well as the Western

canon of political thought, Tracy’s approach to political theory sought—in

unusual and unexpected ways—to bridge literature and philosophy as well as

the continental and analytic traditions. He understood politics to be “the

simultaneous asking of the two questions, who am I? and who are we?”—

using these to sort through the dynamics that shape self and political order.1

Throughout his writings, Tracy saw a common preoccupation with questions

of interpretation, with worlding, and with the founding and finding of poli-

tics. Tracy brought that acumen to his role as editor of the journal and sought

to publish unorthodox pieces that would challenge the field to move beyond

the liberalism/communitarianism debate dominant at the time. His own pub-

lications in Political Theory reflect that intellectual bent. Even as they range,

unusually, from Sigmund Freud to David Easton to Friedrich Nietzsche, they

share a common preoccupation with how to engage in the work of political

theory and to acknowledge the ways in which all forms of human expression

make claims upon our collective and individual political judgments.

The authors of his obituary (https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/legacy

remembers/tracy-strong-obituary?id=34969684) invite us to remember Tracy

by returning to his writings. In the spirit of that invitation, we share with you

a list of articles that Tracy published in our journal.

Joshua Foa Dienstag, Editor

Elisabeth Ellis, Editor

Nancy Luxon, Review Editor

Davide Panagia, Editor

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1. Tracy B. Strong, The Idea of Political Theory: Reflections on the Self in Political

Time and Place (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1990), 34.