Imagination and Critique Two Rival Versions of Historical Inquiry /

This project is the result of a philosophers extended engagement with the literature and practice of political science and public policy formation. One finds in these fields, and in social science generally, two fundamentally opposed approaches to inquiry into the nature and cause of historical pol...

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Main Author: Noland, James R. L. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2010.
Series:Philosophical Studies in Contemporary Culture, 19
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Online Access:https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3804-3
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505 0 # |a Title Page -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Epigraph.-Introduction -- The Story of the Federal Income Tax: A Case Study -- Vico and the Faculty of Imagination -- Marx s Critique of History -- Marx, Rawls and the Intelligibility of Freedom -- Ideology and the Problem of Naming -- Imagination in Practice.-What s the Matter with What s the Matter with Kansas?? -- Freeing Anthropology From Critique -- Imagination and the Possibility of Civil Politics -- Works Cited. 
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