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‘What’s the Problem?’: Political Theory, Rhetoric and Problem‐Setting

Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 2006
Abstract This essay argues that political theorists interested in analysing, understanding or evaluating political problems in the ‘real world’ should consider the ways in which such problems are specified through a rhetorical process of definition. It discusses, in general terms, the relationship of rhetoric to political theory and examines in some ...
Alan Finlayson
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Hume and the Problem of Theory and Practice in Philosophy and Political Theory

2012
What can theory do and what can it not do? What is, and what should be, the relationship between theory and practice? This book examines the relationship between theory and practice in the philosophy and political theory of the Scottish philosopher David Hume (1711-1776).
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Political Theory and the Problem of Ideology

The Journal of Politics, 1980
F OR ALMOST A CENTURY, the assumptions, methods, and arguments of philosophy have dominated the Anglo-American conception of political theory. In this essay, I want to draw attention to some of the practical consequences of viewing political theory in this manner, and to suggest an alternative perspective for the formulation and interpretation of ...
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