Political Studies as Narrative and Science, 1880–2000

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6344760
AutoresMark Bevir (0000-0001-9666-3113, University of California, Berkeley, autor de correspondencia)
Año2006
Volumen54
Número3
Páginas583-606
Fecha de publicación2006-10-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaPolitical Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0032-3217 • E-ISSN: 1467-9248
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1111/j.1467-9248.2006.00616.x
OpenAlexW1973065171
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas16
Referencias citadas63

Today we are often skeptical of the role played by representations of the nation state in constructing and legitimating ways of life and public policies. We portray what once appeared to be neutral, scientific representations of our practices and our heritages as contingent historical objects. How did we become so skeptical? The answer has several parts: developmental historicism dominated the human sciences in the latter half of the nineteenth century; the turn of the century witnessed an epistemic rupture and the rise of a modernist empiricism that came to dominate the social sciences; modernist empiricists reformulated their approach during the latter half of the twentieth century in response to alternative visions of social science; and, finally, the close of the twentieth century also saw the rise of a radical historicism that spread from philosophy and literature to history and even social science. In short, we have become skeptical as we have moved toward a radical historicism that challenges scientism and decenters the grand narratives of yore

Aesthetics · Empiricism · Epistemology · Historicism · Narrative · New Historicism · Political science · Politics · Scientism · Skepticism · Social science · Sociology · Vision · Anthropology · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Law · Philosophy · Political Science Research and Education · Political Theory and Influence