The autonomy of the political and the challenge of social sciences
| Autor: | Dimitrios Tsarapatsanis |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Sociology and Political Science
media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences 06 humanities and the arts 0603 philosophy ethics and religion Magnum opus 0506 political science Culmination Political jurisprudence Public law Politics Law Political science 060302 philosophy Political Science and International Relations 050602 political science & public administration Autonomy Constitutional theory media_common |
| ISSN: | 1741-2730 |
| Popis: | In 2010, Martin Loughlin published his opus magnum Foundations of Public Law, the culmination of years of intensive research on the topics of public law and constitutional theory. In Questioning the Foundations of Public Law, Michael Wilkinson and Michael Dowdle put together a rich collection of papers that probe deeply into various facets of Loughlin’s work. In this review article, I critically examine an aspect of this probing, articulated by Wilkinson, to do with the autonomy of the political as the basis of political jurisprudence. I argue that both the probing and Loughlin’s response articulate horns of a dilemma that points to a deeper issue: the epistemological repercussions of the rise of the social sciences as forms of distinctively modern inquiry into the causes of social phenomena, where these include phenomena such as the autonomy of political power in modern states. |
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