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Logics of Critical Explanation in Social and Political Theory
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Logics of Critical Explanation in Social and Political Theory

Logics of Critical Explanation in Social and Political Theory

ByJason Glynos, David Howarth
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2007
eBook Published 12 September 2007
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.4324/9780203934753
Pages 288 pages
eBook ISBN 9781134138364
SubjectsPolitics & International Relations, Social Sciences
KeywordsFantasmatic Logics, Social Science Explanation, Critical Explanation, Retroductive Explanation, Radical Contingency
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Glynos, J., Howarth, D. (2007). Logics of Critical Explanation in Social and Political Theory. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203934753
ABOUT THIS BOOK

This book proposes a novel approach to practising social and political analysis based on the role of logics. The authors articulate a distinctive perspective on social science explanation that avoids the problems of scientism and subjectivism by steering a careful course between lawlike explanations and thick descriptions. Drawing upon hermeneutics, poststructuralism, psychoanalysis, and post-analytical philosophy, this new approach offers a particular set of logics – social, political and fantasmatic – with which to construct critical explanations of practices and regimes. While the first part of the book critically engages with lawlike, interpretivist and causal approaches to critical explanation, the second part elaborates an alternative grammar of concepts informed by an ontological stance rooted in poststructuralist theory. In developing this approach, a number of empirical cases are included to illustrate its basic concepts and logics, ranging from the apartheid regime in South Africa to recent changes in higher education. The book will be a valuable tool for scholars and researchers in a variety of related fields of study in the social sciences, especially the disciplines of political science and political theory, international relations, social theory, cultural studies, anthropology and philosophy.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |17 pages
Introduction
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chapter 1|31 pages
Retroduction
View abstract
chapter 2|34 pages
Contextualized self-interpretations
View abstract
chapter 3|20 pages
Causal mechanisms
View abstract
chapter 4|30 pages
Ontology
View abstract
chapter 5|32 pages
Logics
View abstract
chapter 6|44 pages
Articulation
View abstract

This book proposes a novel approach to practising social and political analysis based on the role of logics. The authors articulate a distinctive perspective on social science explanation that avoids the problems of scientism and subjectivism by steering a careful course between lawlike explanations and thick descriptions. Drawing upon hermeneutics, poststructuralism, psychoanalysis, and post-analytical philosophy, this new approach offers a particular set of logics – social, political and fantasmatic – with which to construct critical explanations of practices and regimes. While the first part of the book critically engages with lawlike, interpretivist and causal approaches to critical explanation, the second part elaborates an alternative grammar of concepts informed by an ontological stance rooted in poststructuralist theory. In developing this approach, a number of empirical cases are included to illustrate its basic concepts and logics, ranging from the apartheid regime in South Africa to recent changes in higher education. The book will be a valuable tool for scholars and researchers in a variety of related fields of study in the social sciences, especially the disciplines of political science and political theory, international relations, social theory, cultural studies, anthropology and philosophy.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |17 pages
Introduction
View abstract
chapter 1|31 pages
Retroduction
View abstract
chapter 2|34 pages
Contextualized self-interpretations
View abstract
chapter 3|20 pages
Causal mechanisms
View abstract
chapter 4|30 pages
Ontology
View abstract
chapter 5|32 pages
Logics
View abstract
chapter 6|44 pages
Articulation
View abstract
CONTENTS
ABOUT THIS BOOK

This book proposes a novel approach to practising social and political analysis based on the role of logics. The authors articulate a distinctive perspective on social science explanation that avoids the problems of scientism and subjectivism by steering a careful course between lawlike explanations and thick descriptions. Drawing upon hermeneutics, poststructuralism, psychoanalysis, and post-analytical philosophy, this new approach offers a particular set of logics – social, political and fantasmatic – with which to construct critical explanations of practices and regimes. While the first part of the book critically engages with lawlike, interpretivist and causal approaches to critical explanation, the second part elaborates an alternative grammar of concepts informed by an ontological stance rooted in poststructuralist theory. In developing this approach, a number of empirical cases are included to illustrate its basic concepts and logics, ranging from the apartheid regime in South Africa to recent changes in higher education. The book will be a valuable tool for scholars and researchers in a variety of related fields of study in the social sciences, especially the disciplines of political science and political theory, international relations, social theory, cultural studies, anthropology and philosophy.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |17 pages
Introduction
View abstract
chapter 1|31 pages
Retroduction
View abstract
chapter 2|34 pages
Contextualized self-interpretations
View abstract
chapter 3|20 pages
Causal mechanisms
View abstract
chapter 4|30 pages
Ontology
View abstract
chapter 5|32 pages
Logics
View abstract
chapter 6|44 pages
Articulation
View abstract

This book proposes a novel approach to practising social and political analysis based on the role of logics. The authors articulate a distinctive perspective on social science explanation that avoids the problems of scientism and subjectivism by steering a careful course between lawlike explanations and thick descriptions. Drawing upon hermeneutics, poststructuralism, psychoanalysis, and post-analytical philosophy, this new approach offers a particular set of logics – social, political and fantasmatic – with which to construct critical explanations of practices and regimes. While the first part of the book critically engages with lawlike, interpretivist and causal approaches to critical explanation, the second part elaborates an alternative grammar of concepts informed by an ontological stance rooted in poststructuralist theory. In developing this approach, a number of empirical cases are included to illustrate its basic concepts and logics, ranging from the apartheid regime in South Africa to recent changes in higher education. The book will be a valuable tool for scholars and researchers in a variety of related fields of study in the social sciences, especially the disciplines of political science and political theory, international relations, social theory, cultural studies, anthropology and philosophy.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |17 pages
Introduction
View abstract
chapter 1|31 pages
Retroduction
View abstract
chapter 2|34 pages
Contextualized self-interpretations
View abstract
chapter 3|20 pages
Causal mechanisms
View abstract
chapter 4|30 pages
Ontology
View abstract
chapter 5|32 pages
Logics
View abstract
chapter 6|44 pages
Articulation
View abstract
ABOUT THIS BOOK
ABOUT THIS BOOK

This book proposes a novel approach to practising social and political analysis based on the role of logics. The authors articulate a distinctive perspective on social science explanation that avoids the problems of scientism and subjectivism by steering a careful course between lawlike explanations and thick descriptions. Drawing upon hermeneutics, poststructuralism, psychoanalysis, and post-analytical philosophy, this new approach offers a particular set of logics – social, political and fantasmatic – with which to construct critical explanations of practices and regimes. While the first part of the book critically engages with lawlike, interpretivist and causal approaches to critical explanation, the second part elaborates an alternative grammar of concepts informed by an ontological stance rooted in poststructuralist theory. In developing this approach, a number of empirical cases are included to illustrate its basic concepts and logics, ranging from the apartheid regime in South Africa to recent changes in higher education. The book will be a valuable tool for scholars and researchers in a variety of related fields of study in the social sciences, especially the disciplines of political science and political theory, international relations, social theory, cultural studies, anthropology and philosophy.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |17 pages
Introduction
View abstract
chapter 1|31 pages
Retroduction
View abstract
chapter 2|34 pages
Contextualized self-interpretations
View abstract
chapter 3|20 pages
Causal mechanisms
View abstract
chapter 4|30 pages
Ontology
View abstract
chapter 5|32 pages
Logics
View abstract
chapter 6|44 pages
Articulation
View abstract

This book proposes a novel approach to practising social and political analysis based on the role of logics. The authors articulate a distinctive perspective on social science explanation that avoids the problems of scientism and subjectivism by steering a careful course between lawlike explanations and thick descriptions. Drawing upon hermeneutics, poststructuralism, psychoanalysis, and post-analytical philosophy, this new approach offers a particular set of logics – social, political and fantasmatic – with which to construct critical explanations of practices and regimes. While the first part of the book critically engages with lawlike, interpretivist and causal approaches to critical explanation, the second part elaborates an alternative grammar of concepts informed by an ontological stance rooted in poststructuralist theory. In developing this approach, a number of empirical cases are included to illustrate its basic concepts and logics, ranging from the apartheid regime in South Africa to recent changes in higher education. The book will be a valuable tool for scholars and researchers in a variety of related fields of study in the social sciences, especially the disciplines of political science and political theory, international relations, social theory, cultural studies, anthropology and philosophy.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |17 pages
Introduction
View abstract
chapter 1|31 pages
Retroduction
View abstract
chapter 2|34 pages
Contextualized self-interpretations
View abstract
chapter 3|20 pages
Causal mechanisms
View abstract
chapter 4|30 pages
Ontology
View abstract
chapter 5|32 pages
Logics
View abstract
chapter 6|44 pages
Articulation
View abstract
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