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Political Science: Reflecting on Concepts, Demystifying Legends

Political Science: Reflecting on Concepts, Demystifying Legends

Eisfeld, Rainer

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General Political Science

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ISBN10: 3847405063
ISBN13: 9783847405061
Publisher: Barbara Budrich Publ
Published: Apr 4 2016
Pages: 129
Weight: 0.44
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
Rainer Eisfeld's book highlights the merits of socio-historical research into topics infrequently covered by mainstream political science. Directing attention to the need for carefully scrutinizing the convenient truths of established - post-Nazi, post-Communist - political narratives, its chapters encourage reflection of the discipline's history and state of the art. A companion volume to the 2012 book entitled Radical Approaches to Political Science: Roads Less Traveled (also published by Barbara Budrich), this collection is likewise based on an approach to political science informed by a theory of participatory pluralism and grounded in history. The chapters focus on the discipline's fragmentation and its retreat from public debate; on the varying roles of political science and international relations as champions of more or less democracy; on normative and analytical concepts developed by Hannah Arendt, Klaus von Beyme, and Robert A. Dahl; on the deconstruction of the Peenemünde Legend about the unspoiled rule of science at the Third Reich's missile development center; on reasons for the Peenemünde engineers' actual complicity in the exploitation of concentration camp labor to mass-produce their V-2 missile. Rainer Eisfeld's leadership in the fields of pluralism and analysis of the discipline in the International Political Science Association means that he has quite a background to share with us in this, his most recent, collection of essays. John Trent

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