The Stories We Share: Learnings from a Hundred Years of the Three Communities

• Author: Ben Mylius
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1177/00905917221128895
• Published date: 01 February 2023
• Date: 01 February 2023
• Subject Matter: Articles

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Political Theory

2023, Vol. 51(1) 178 –189

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The Stories We Share:

Learnings from a

Hundred Years of the

Three Communities

Ben Mylius1

Abstract

This essay is part of a special issue celebrating 50 years of Political Theory.

The ambition of the editors was to mark this half century not with a

retrospective but with a confabulation of futures. Contributors were

asked: What will political theory look and sound like in the next century

and beyond? What claims might political theorists or their descendants be

making in ten, twenty-five, fifty, a hundred years’ time? How might they

vindicate those claims in their future contexts? How will the consistent

concerns of political theorists evolve into the questions critical for people

decades or centuries from now? What new problems will engage the

political theorists (or their rough equivalents) of the future? What forms

might those take? What follows is one of the many confabulations published

in response to these queries.

1Department of Political Science, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

Corresponding Author:

Ben Mylius, Department of Political Science, Columbia University, 420 W. 118th Street,

Room 710, Mail Code 3320, New York, NY 10027, USA.

Email: b.mylius@columbia.edu

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