| ID | 143144 |
| Title Proper | Rationalism in politics |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Steinberger, Peter J |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Much recent political thought has been devoted to the proposition that neither political endeavor properly understood nor theorizing about such endeavor is or could ever be a kind of rational activity. I examine three broad approaches that celebrate, respectively, rhetorical practices of political persuasion, agonistic conceptions of democracy, and, more generally, a kind of hard-headed critical realism rooted in the plain facts of political life. I argue that criticisms of rationalism in politics associated with these approaches systematically ignore central tenets of what might be called a post-Kantian convergence of recent and important philosophical perspectives and that such perspectives can be enormously useful in addressing and critically evaluating the underlying intellectual structures of political life. |
| `In' analytical Note | American Political Science Review Vol. 109, No.4; Nov 2015: p.750-763 |
| Journal Source | American Political Science Review 2015-12 109, 4 |
| Key Words | Politics ; Rationalism ; Political Life ; Political Thought |