Editorial: The 'political turn' in political theory

The editorial examines the emergence of a political turn that refocuses on what is specifically political about political thinking. It positions that turn as one of a series of attempts to revitalise an interest in the political, but claims that most such attempts have not separated politics from ethics, not have they examined the many core micro-features of thinking politically. Building on the analysis offered in the author's The Political Theory of Political Thinking, the second part of the editorial applies the general features identified there to the various outlets afforded to them by different ideological families. The ubiquity of core features of thinking politically is accompanied by the diversity of their concrete delivery through those families.