The Disorder of Political Inquiry / / Keith Lewis Topper.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada)
• VerfasserIn: Topper, Keith Lewis,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (336 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction: The Social Science Wars --; 1. Science Turned Upside Down --; 2. In Defense of Disunity --; 3. The Politics of Redescription --; 4. Reclaiming the Language of Emancipation --; 5. Sciences That Disturb --; Conclusion: Pluralism, Power, Perestroika, and Political Inquiry --; Notes --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674044401; 9783110756067; 9783110442205
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674044401
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Keith Lewis Topper.

Engaging the work of thinkers such as Richard Rorty, Charles Taylor, Pierre Bourdieu, Roy Bhaskar, and Hannah Arendt, as well as recent literature in political science and the history and philosophy of science, Topper proposes a pluralist, normative, and broadly pragmatist conception of political inquiry, one that is analytically rigorous yet alive to the notorious vagaries, idiosyncrasies, and messy uncertainties of political life.