The disorder of political inquiry / Keith Topper.

By: Topper, Keith Lewis, 1958- [author]
Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2005Description: xi, 322 pages ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0674016785 (alk. paper); 9780674016781Subject(s): Social sciences -- Methodology | Social sciences -- Philosophy | Political science -- Methodology | Political science -- Philosophy | Naturalism | Power (Social sciences)DDC classification: 300.72 LOC classification: H61 | .T63 2005
Contents:
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.
Summary: "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."
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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.


"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."

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