A genealogy of political theory: A polemic

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buir.contributor.authorAlexander, James
dc.citation.epage423en_US
dc.citation.issueNumber3
dc.citation.spage402en_US
dc.citation.volumeNumber18
dc.contributor.authorAlexander, Jamesen_US
dc.date.accessioned2019-02-21T16:02:56Z
dc.date.available2019-02-21T16:02:56Z
dc.date.issued2019en_US
dc.departmentDepartment of Political Science and Public Administrationen_US
dc.description.abstractHere is a sketch of a genealogy of political theory for the last century. This is a genealogy in Nietzsche’s sense: therefore, neither unhistorical taxonomy, nor a history of political theory as it is written by historians, but a typology in time. Four types of modern political theory are distinguished. These are called, with some justification, positive, normative, third way and sceptical political theory. Seen from the vantage of the twenty-first century, they form an instructive sequence, emerging as a series of reactions to the canonical political theory that was established in the universities in the late nineteenth century. None of the four should be excluded from our conception of what political theory has been, though most of them, when seen genealogically, reveal their defects more clearly than they do when treated purely theoretically. Since this is a sceptical finding, the genealogy is a polemic against the first three types of modern political theory in favour of the last.
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dc.identifier.doi10.1057/s41296-018-0275-7
dc.identifier.eissn1476-9336en_US
dc.identifier.issn1470-8914
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11693/50057
dc.language.isoEnglish
dc.publisherPalgrave Macmillan
dc.relation.isversionofhttps://doi.org/10.1057/s41296-018-0275-7
dc.source.titleContemporary Political Theoryen_US
dc.subjectCanonicalen_US
dc.subjectNormativeen_US
dc.subjectPolitical theoryen_US
dc.subjectPositiveen_US
dc.subjectScepticalen_US
dc.subjectThird wayen_US
dc.titleA genealogy of political theory: A polemicen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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