Imagination and Critique Two Rival Versions of Historical Inquiry /

• 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
• Subjects: Philosophy (General).; Social sciences > Philosophy.; Political science > Philosophy.; History.; Philosophy.; Political Philosophy.; Philosophy of the Social Sciences.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3804-3

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...

Table of Contents:

• Title Page
• Dedication
• Acknowledgements
• Epigraph.-Introduction
• The Story of the Federal Income Tax: A Case Study
• Vico and the Faculty of Imagination
• Marxs Critique of History
• Marx, Rawls and the Intelligibility of Freedom
• Ideology and the Problem of Naming
• Imagination in Practice.-Whats the Matter with Whats the Matter with Kansas??
• Freeing Anthropology From Critique
• Imagination and the Possibility of Civil Politics
• Works Cited.