Political Science: Reflecting on Concepts, Demystifying Legends (Paperback)

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 "Peenemunde Legend" about the unspoiled rule of science at the Third Reich's missile development center; on reasons for the Peenemunde 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

General

Imprint:	Verlag Barbara Budrich
Country of origin:	Germany
Release date:	April 2016
Authors:	Rainer Eisfeld
Dimensions:	210 x 148 x 8mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	129
ISBN-13:	978-3-8474-0506-1
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political science & theory Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works > General
LSN:	3-8474-0506-3
Barcode:	9783847405061

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