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Rationality in Politics and its Limits (Hardcover)
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Rationality in Politics and its Limits (Hardcover)
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The word 'rationality' and its cognates, like 'reason', have
multiple contexts and connotations. Rational calculation can be
contrasted with rational interpretation. There is the rationality
of proof and of persuasion, of tradition and of the criticism of
tradition. Rationalism (and rationalists) can be reasonable or
unreasonable. Reason is sometimes distinguished from revelation,
superstition, convention, prejudice, emotion, and chance, but all
of these also involve reasoning. In politics, three views of
rationality - economic, moral, and historical - have been
especially important, often defining approaches to politics and
political theory such as utilitarianism and rational choice theory.
These approaches privilege positive or natural law,
responsibilities, or human rights, and emphasize the importance of
culture and tradition, and therefore meaning and context. This book
explores the understanding of rationality in politics and the
relations between different approaches to rationality. Among the
topics considered are the limits of rationality, the role of
imagination and emotion in politics, the meaning of political
realism, the nature of political judgment, and the relationship
between theory and practice. This book was originally published as
a special issue of Global Discourse.
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