ABSTRACT
Metapolitics is concerned with the description, analysis, and justificatory norms governing the linguistic practices of those employing the language of politics and political inquiry. Metapolitics is a critical and analytic concern with the conceptual language of political inquiry. Metapolitics concerns itself with the specification of linguistic domains which can be isolated in the language of political inquiry and addresses itself to the most general kinds of truth conditions which govern each of them. Metapolitics is a concern which commences with an analysis of the most primitive of fundamental knowledge claims upon which the edifice of political inquiry rests. The fact is that the universe of political discourse has at least three constituent, mutually interpenetrative and radically compatible, cognitive domains, the analytic, the synthetic and the normative—a fact to which the student, under present circumstances, is given but minimal exposure.
