John Gunnell has compelled political theorists to rethink their
relation to political science, the history of political thought,
the philosophy of social science and political reality. His
thinking has been shaped by encounters with Heidegger and Plato,
Wittgenstein and Austin, the Berkeley School and emigres such as
Strauss and Arendt. His writings have challenged the idealist
assumptions behind the idea of a Great Tradition of Political
Thought and the philosophical claims about mind and language.
Gunnell has engaged and challenged colleagues in political theory,
political science and the philosophy of social science on a range
of issues from political action, time, pluralism, ideology,
concepts, conventions, "the political" and democracy to the roles
of philosophy, science, literary theory, cognitive science, mind,
and history on the enterprise of theorizing today. The book focuses
on his work in three key areas: Political Theory and Political
Science Gunnell's work has often focused on the historical
emergence of the study of political theory as a subdiscipline of
political science, and its critical relation to and alienation from
political science from the postwar era. His argument has been
consistent: political theory self-identified as an interpretative
social science and mode of historical reflection is an invention of
political science. Political theory divorced from political science
weakens both activities in their ties to, concerns with and
relevance to political society and the contemporary university.
Interpretation and Action Gunnell has been particularly interested
in the nature of concepts and how they change. These investigations
begin with analysis of theory and theorizing as they are
constituted and practiced in historiography, the philosophy of
social sciences, the philosophy of science, political science and
metatheory. He engages with thinkers whose positions inform and
oppose his own and explores concepts such as: democracy, justice,
time, pluralism, science, liberalism, and action. Theorists,
Philosophers, and Political Life Gunnell's work has developed
through a series of encounters with theorists and philosophers. He
has rejected attempts to present politics as a stable and essential
set of phenomena. There are common themes that guide conversations
with the German emigres, ordinary language philosophers, and
theorists from the history of political thought. This book includes
works that focus on Max Weber, Leo Strauss and Eric Voegelin,
Gilbert Ryle, J.L. Austin and Ludwig Wittgenstein.
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