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Title:

THOUGHTS AND DEEDS
LANGUAGE AND THE PRACTICE OF POLITICAL THEORY

By:

Clay Thomas Arnold

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0820418366

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PETER LANG PUBLISHING INC

Pub. date:

1 June, 1993

Series:

Major Concepts in Politics and Political Theory 2

Pages:

154

Synopsis:

Thoughts & Deeds examines the debate surrounding the increasingly contentious role of language as both an object and method of modern political inquiry. For a growing number of scholars in political theory in particular, linguistic developments threaten to deconstitute, to depoliticize what is and should remain a properly political field. The most popular linguistic schools of political thought - those associated with the writings of Wittgenstein and Habermas - are examined in light of these and related charges. As a way of testing both claims and criticisms, the linguistic assumptions and practices of Hobbes and Tocqueville are reconstructed and analyzed. In each case, language is revealed central to their goals of understanding, explaining and influencing political developments.

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