Political Science: Reflecting on Concepts, Demystifying Legends - Couverture souple

Eisfeld, Prof. Em. Dr. Rainer

 
9783847405061: Political Science: Reflecting on Concepts, Demystifying Legends

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l?auteur

Rainer Eisfeld, Professor emeritus of Political Science at Osnabrück University, Germany. Rainer Eisfeld has long served as a member of the Buchenwald/ Mittelbau-Dora Concentration Camp Memorial's Board of Trustees and, in recent years, also of the International Political Science Association's Executive Committee. He taught at UCLA as a Visiting Professor.

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