Format:
1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:
9783847409281
Content:
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
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783847405061
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783847405061
Additional Edition:
Eisfeld, Rainer, 1941 - Political science: reflecting on concepts, demystifying legends Opladen : Barbara Budrich Publishers, 2016 ISBN 3847405063
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783847405061
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9783847405061
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe
Language:
English
Subjects:
Political Science
Keywords:
Politische Wissenschaft
Author information:
Eisfeld, Rainer 1941-
