The Nature of Political Theory

90 The Nature of Political Theory metaphysics, but the basic enmity has remained an undercurrent, even to the present day (see S ...

Foundations Shaken but Not Stirred 91 of his book: ‘To show that the questions put by the traditional political philosophers are ...

92 The Nature of Political Theory (of which Weldon was also a part) did not really advance the case much beyond commenting, on a ...

Foundations Shaken but Not Stirred 93 (1990), commenting on political philosophy in 1956, notes that Laslett and others who coin ...

94 The Nature of Political Theory R. G. Collingwood, Jacques Maritain, Antonio Gramsci, Georg Lukacs, Karl Popper, Herbert Marcu ...

Foundations Shaken but Not Stirred 95 some of the cultural excuses that make us smile at his eccentricity. Second, the thinking ...

96 The Nature of Political Theory this domestic radicalism was set against the backdrop of the Vietnam War. This gal- vanized a ...

Foundations Shaken but Not Stirred 97 rules of usage. At one point, Wittgenstein refers to these rules as equivalent to a kind o ...

98 The Nature of Political Theory still attempt to gain greater clarity and will thus fixate upon one particular use of a concep ...

Foundations Shaken but Not Stirred 99 Gallie postulates four major initial characteristics of such concepts. They must be apprai ...

100 The Nature of Political Theory political theory throughout the second half of the twentieth century. It also ties in closely ...

Foundations Shaken but Not Stirred 101 is an immanent danger of an extreme Pyrrhonism within Wittgensteinianism and essential co ...

102 The Nature of Political Theory The important point here is that these concepts that constitute our political lives are both ...

Foundations Shaken but Not Stirred 103 concepts as an open invitation for ‘tidying up’. Unlike the ‘reportive’ and ‘stipulative’ ...

104 The Nature of Political Theory autonomy of the discipline of political theory. This latter perspective begins to provide som ...

Foundations Shaken but Not Stirred 105 end of the century. The key dilemma for such texts—which have usually standardly been ahi ...

106 The Nature of Political Theory extra category in Part One. However, my reason for separating this latter discussion out into ...

Foundations Shaken but Not Stirred 107 In Richard Flathman’s work, in the 1970s and 1980s, it appeared to be reaching its apo- ...

4 Bleached Foundations The upshot of Chapter Three is that logical positivism, ordinary language philosophy, and the essential c ...

Bleached Foundations 109 side. What was needed was a modified analytical emphasis—a tempered essential contestability—which reco ...