TY  - BOOK
AU  - Topper,Keith Lewis
TI  - The disorder of political inquiry
SN  - 0674016785 (alk. paper)
AV  - H61 .T63 2005
U1  - 300.72 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Cambridge, Massachusetts
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Social sciences
KW  - Methodology
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Political science
KW  - Naturalism
KW  - Power (Social sciences)
N1  - Includes index; Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-313); The social science wars --
Science turned upside down --
In defense of disunity --
The politics of disunity --
The politics of redescription --
Reclaiming the language of emancipation --
Sciences that disturb --
Conclusion: pluralism, power, Perestroika, and political inquiry
N2  - 	
"Engaging the work of thinkers such as Richard Rorty, Charles Taylor, Pierre Bourdieu, Roy Bhaskar, and Hannah Arendt, as well as recent literature in political science and the history and philosophy of science, Topper proposes a pluralist, normative, and broadly pragmatist conception of political inquiry, one that is analytically rigorous yet alive to the notorious vagaries, idiosyncrasies, and messy uncertainties of political life."
ER  -