The Nature of the Political Reconsidered
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8975178 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dominic Holland (0000-0002-0565-5298, School of Social Sciences Nottingham Trent University Burton Street Nottingham NG1 4BU UK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 32-57 |
| Publication date | 2015-10-10 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8308 • E-ISSN: 1468-5914 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/jtsb.12095 |
| OpenAlex | W2179561016 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 19 |
I present an immanent, and explanatory, critique of reflections on the nature of politics and of power within political science. I argue that these reflections are problematic, to the extent that they presuppose an actualist conception of the political, and that this is generated by an empiricist way of thinking on the one hand and a constructivist way of thinking on the other. I show how re‐defining politics, power, and the political on the basis of a dialectical critical realist ontology resolves these problems and, thereby, allows us to understand the conditions for social change and the relationship between the political and the economic. My argument has two, important implications: first, that the proposal that those who study politics professionally should celebrate philosophical diversity is dangerous–at least if it makes it difficult to sustain a distinct, emancipatory form of political inquiry; and, second, that the nature of social reality justifies the need both for specialized forms of inquiry, such as politics and economics, and integrative forms of inquiry, such as political economy
Argument (complex analysis · Dialectic · Economics · Empiricism · Epistemology · Explanatory power · Ontology · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Power (physics · Social science · Sociology · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Critical Realism in Sociology · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Law · Philosophy
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Power
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Power 1.5 and the Weakness of Liberalism
Dialectic
Structure, Agency and the Internal Conversation
Research Methods in Politics
Power
Dictionary of Critical Realism
Scientific Realism and Human Emancipation
Divided by a Common Language
Power and Contentment
The concept of power
Two Faces of Power
Decisions and Nondecisions
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,43 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2022 (4) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |