Thinking Outside the Canon: Political Theory as Textual Odyssey

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Michael J. Shapiro (Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of HawaiÊ»i at Manoa)

Thinking Outside the Canon

Political Theory as Textual Odyssey

Michael J. Shapiro (Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of HawaiÊ»i at Manoa)

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Oxford University Press Inc
30 October 2025

Films, movies & cinema; Literary theory; Communication studies; Political science & theory

Thinking Outside the Canon traces author Michael J. Shapiro's intellectual journey as a political theorist who has adapted multidisciplinary practices and unconventional texts across his career to develop a more diverse model of doing theory. Theorizing textuality and historiography, Shapiro draws on a variety of disciplinary idioms and texts that span across genres and geographies, ranging from Caribbean fiction to Ukraine war fictional ethnographies. As well, he covers an array of scales and spaces, from the state to the individual room. As such, Thinking Outside the Canon reflects how the field of political theory has grown and shifted through the author's own textual odyssey.

After recovering the early portion of his own political theory odyssey, Shapiro traces his departures from the canon. He recounts how, through this departure, he refashioned his scholarship via a series of textual engagements and composed the basis of an instructional inquiry focused on textuality and historiography. Finally, Shapiro relates how Thinking Outside the Canon functions as his own learning text, as both a theorist and writer and as a student, looking towards the future of the political theory canon and its usefulness.

By: Michael J. Shapiro (Professor Emeritus of Political Science Professor Emeritus of Political Science University of HawaiÊ»i at Manoa)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 232mm, Width: 160mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 259g
ISBN: 9780197806234
ISBN 10: 0197806236
Pages: 200
Publication Date: 30 October 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Michael J. Shapiro is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He is the author of several books, including Aesthetics of Equality; The Political Sublime; Punctuations: How the Arts Think the Political; The Cinematic Political: Film Composition as Political Theory; and Writing Politics: Studies in Compositional Method.