In this outstanding collection of essays, Isaiah Berlin, one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century, discusses the importance of dissenters in the history of ideas--among them Machiavelli, Vico, Montesquieu, Herzen, and Sorel. With his unusual powers of imaginative re-cr…
The role of ideas in political analysis: a portrait of contemporary debates
by Economic and Social Research Council (Great Britain), Hay, Colin, University of Warwick., Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation, Gofas, Andreas
fromRoutledge/Warwick Studies in Globalisation
Despite the proliferation of ideational accounts in the last decade or so, the debate over the role of ideas remains caught up in a series of disputes over the ontological foundations, epistemological status and practical pay-off of the (re)turn to ideational explanations. It is…
Presents an overview of the role of ideas in political analysis. This book describes the ideational movement and infers which of its many strands might prove more useful to political analysis. It offers an exploration of theoretical and empirical work on ideational phenomena.
