Political Theory as Both Philosophy and History: A Defense Against Methodological Militancy
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Political Theory as Both Philosophy and History: A Defense Against Methodological Militancy
This essay defends a broad, eclectic, and inclusive kind of political theory against methodological militants who would restrict political theory’s permissible purview. It rejects the idea—frequently voiced by exponents of both analytic-philosophic and historicist methodologies—that philosophical and historical analyses are necessarily two separate enterprises that ought to be kept distinct, no...
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عنوان ژورنال: Annual Review of Political Science
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1094-2939,1545-1577
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-polisci-051713-123049