{"id":24695,"date":"2016-04-04T15:40:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T14:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shop.budrich-academic.de\/?post_type=product&#038;p=24695"},"modified":"2022-09-10T00:00:18","modified_gmt":"2022-09-09T22:00:18","slug":"political-science-reflecting-on-concepts-demystifying-legends","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/shop.budrich.de\/en\/produkt\/political-science-reflecting-on-concepts-demystifying-legends\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Science: Reflecting on Concepts, Demystifying Legends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Rainer Eisfeld\u2019s book highlights the merits of socio-historical research into topics infrequently covered by mainstream political science. Directing attention to the need for carefully scrutinizing the convenient \u201ctruths\u201d of established \u2013 post-Nazi, post-Communist\u00a0\u2013 political narratives, its chapters encourage reflection of the discipline\u2019s history and state of the art.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A companion volume to the 2012 book entitled Radical Approaches to Political Science: Roads Less Traveled (also published by Barbara Budrich), this collection is likewise based on an approach to political science informed by a theory of participatory pluralism and grounded in history. The chapters focus on the discipline\u2019s fragmentation and its retreat from public debate; on the varying roles of political science and international relations as champions of more or less democracy; on normative and analytical concepts developed by Hannah Arendt, Klaus von Beyme, and Robert A. Dahl; on the deconstruction of the \u201cPeenem\u00fcnde Legend\u201d about the unspoiled rule of science at the Third Reich\u2019s missile development center; on reasons for the Peenem\u00fcnde engineers\u2019 actual complicity in the exploitation of concentration camp labor to mass-produce their V-2 missile.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRainer Eisfeld\u2019s leadership in the fields of pluralism and analysis of the discipline in the International Political Science Association means that he has quite a background to share with us in this, his most recent, collection of essays.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>John Trent<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>From the Contents:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>What Political Science May (Not) Achieve<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Specialization and Teamwork: Current Challenges to the Discipline<\/p>\n<p>Political Science and Transition to Democracy: The German Experience<\/p>\n<p><strong>Standing on the Shoulders of Giants<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The \u201eThree Pillars of Hell\u201c: Hannah Arendt\u2019s Concept of Total Rule \u2013 Sources, Merits, Limits<\/p>\n<p>Prospects of Pluralist Democracy in an Age of Economic Globalization and World-Wide<\/p>\n<p>Migration: A Tribute to Robert A. Dahl<\/p>\n<p>Klaus von Beyme: The Political Scientist as Global Scholar and Public Intellectual<\/p>\n<p><strong>Two Profoundly Different Schools of Political Science<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Political Science in Great Britain and Germany: The Roles of LSE and DHfP<\/p>\n<p>From the Berlin Political Studies Institute to Columbia and Yale: Ernst Jaeckh and Arnold Wolfers<\/p>\n<p><strong>Peenem\u00fcnde: Challenging the Myth of Nonpolitical Technology<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Peenem\u00fcnde, the V-2 and the Exploitation of Slave Labor. A Study in Reactionary Modernism<\/p>\n<p>The Peenem\u00fcnde Legend: Origins, Perpetuation, Demise<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shop.budrich.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/9783847405061_iv.pdf\">Table of Contents (pdf)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Der Autor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rainer Eisfeld,<br \/>\n<\/strong>Professor emeritus of Political Science at Osnabr\u00fcck University, Germany. Rainer Eisfeld has long served as a member of the Buchenwald\/ Mittelbau-Dora Concentration Camp Memorial\u2019s Board of Trustees and, in recent years, also of the International Political Science Association\u2019s Executive Committee. He taught at UCLA as a Visiting Profess.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Download for free: <a href=\"https:\/\/shop.budrich.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/0506-eisfeld-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">publicity leaflet<\/a> (pdf)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Target groups: <\/strong>Faculty, under- and postgraduates in political science and contemporary history<\/p>\n<p><strong>Keywords: <\/strong>disciplinary fragmentation, retreat from public debate, political philosophy, normative paradigms, reactionary modernism as an analytical tool<\/p>\n<p><strong>Subject area: <\/strong>Political Science<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rainer Eisfeld\u2019s book highlights the merits of socio-historical research into topics infrequently covered by mainstream political science. 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