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Political Theory and Social Science: Cutting Against the Grain

By John G. Gunnell

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2011
ISBN
0230109543, 9780230109544
LCC
JA71 .G87 2010
Open Library ID
OL24422570M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2525011 bytes)
Pages
201\201
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

Political theory is approached as species of political and social science but more broadly as a form of interpretive or metapractical inquiry. Much of the emphasis is on the relationship between philosophy and social science and on the dilemmas that attend the cognitive and practical relationship between social science and its subject matter. This work is devoted to a critical analytical examination of the history, character, and conduct of contemporary academic political theory and to a reconsideration of significant elements of this field of inquiry from the perspective of the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein.

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