Awards
- Winner of Benjamin Evans Lippincott Award of the American Political Science Association 1999 (United States)
Overview
William Connolly presents a lucid and concise defense of the thesis of ""essentially contested concepts"" that can well be read as a general introduction to political theory, as well as for its challenge to the prevailing understanding of political discourse. In Connolly's view, the language of politics is not a neutral medium that conveys ideas independently formed but an institutionalized structure of meanings that channels political thought and action in certain directions. In the new preface he pursues the implications of this perspective for a distinctive conception of ethics and democracy.
Full Product Details
Author: William E. Connolly
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Imprint: Princeton University Press
Edition: Revised edition
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 1.60cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.340kg
ISBN: 9780691022239
ISBN 10: 0691022232
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 12 September 1993
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Out of print, replaced by POD
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Language: English
Reviews
Connolly's arguments present a profound challenge to the link between political science and positivism, call into question our objective' understanding of American institutional life, and give us the beginnings of important new epistemological bases of understanding. -- Cecil L. Eubanks, The Journal of Politics
"Winner of the 1999 Benjamin Evans Lippincott Award, American Political Science Association ""Connolly's arguments present a profound challenge to the link between political science and positivism, call into question our ""objective' understanding of American institutional life, and give us the beginnings of important new epistemological bases of understanding.""--Cecil L. Eubanks, The Journal of Politics"
Connolly's arguments present a profound challenge to the link between political science and positivism, call into question our objective' understanding of American institutional life, and give us the beginnings of important new epistemological bases of understanding. -- Cecil L. Eubanks The Journal of Politics
Winner of the 1999 Benjamin Evans Lippincott Award, American Political Science Association Connolly's arguments present a profound challenge to the link between political science and positivism, call into question our objective' understanding of American institutional life, and give us the beginnings of important new epistemological bases of understanding. --Cecil L. Eubanks, The Journal of Politics
Author Information
William E. Connolly is Professor of Political Science at the Johns Hopkins University and the author of Identity/Difference: Democratic Negotiations of Political Paradox (Cornell).
