""Contents ""; ""Introduction: Turning and Turning in the Widening Gyre""; ""Part One: From Figures of Inquiry ""; ""Chapter 1: Returning Pluralism to Political Science: A Programmatic Manifesto for Rhetoric of Political Inquiry""; ""Origins""; ""Purposes""; ""Politics""; ""Problematics ""; ""Ends ""; ""Chapter 2: Returning History to Political Science: A Disciplinary Archaeology of Amnesia in Political Argument""; ""Disciplines""; ""Presentations""; ""Histories""; ""Traditions""; ""Chapter 3: Turning Underground into Approved Rhetorics: A Partial Confession from a Scientizing Discipline"" ""Approved versus Underground Rhetorics""""Confession""; ""Propriety""; ""Decorum""; ""Chapter 4: Overturning Argument in Political Science: An Apostate Meditation on Disappointments of Political Theory""; ""Detachment""; ""Skepticism""; ""Reflection""; ""Recognition""; ""Ascension""; ""Reconstruction""; ""Chapter 5: Returning Argument to Political Inquiry: A Mythic Narration of Models, Statistics, and Other Tropes""; ""How Political Science Lost Its Arguments""; ""The Behavior Vanishes""; ""The Regression of Political Science""; ""How Rational Choice Theory Got Its Paradoxes"" ""Tropes, Traps, Tokens, and Detours""""Part Two: To Myths of Action""; ""Chapter 6: Turning Politics into Words: A Rhetorical Invention of Evidence and Argument""; ""Words, Words Everywhere, and Many a Meaning to each""; ""Not Just Data but Reality""; ""The Center Cannot Hold""; ""The Play's the Thing""; ""Chapter 7: Turning Ideologies into Myths: A Postmodern Essay in Political and Rhetorical Analysis""; ""Analogy""; ""Ethos""; ""Logos""; ""Pathos""; ""Mythos""; ""Example""; ""Chapter 8: Turning Governments Every Which Way but Loose: A Poetic Experiment in Politics and Communication"" ""Female Metaphors""""Mything Words""; ""Immersing Myths""; ""Measuring Humans""; ""Dueling Myths""; ""Strange Attractors""; ""Chapter 9: Turning Deliberations into Debates: A Dialogical Deconstruction of Senate Rituals of Comity""; ""Mis-Stake""; ""Myth-Take""; ""De-Liberation""; ""Oxy-Moron""; ""Right-You-All""; ""De-Bait""; ""Trad(e)-Ition""; ""Chapter 10: Turning Stands into Stances: A Figural Argument About Forms of Political Action""; ""Form and Content""; ""Principle and Compromise""; ""Thought and Action""; ""Making and Taking""; ""Being and Doing""; ""Fire and Rain""; ""Notes"" ""Index"" |