This volume provides a critical examination of the manner in which politics, government and political science is studied. It argues that current studies have become negligent and shapeless, caused by a steady weakening of the historical and philosophical structure of political study and research. The author outlines a reconstruction of the subject which separates it into two complementary sides of political study, pure and applied politics. Pure politics would be a philosophical and historical evaluation of political experience pursued for its own sake, while applied politics would encompass a descriptive, explanatory study of the practices of modern government, directed chiefly at vocational needs. Using this basis, the author feels that the study of politics would be placed on a stronger foundation: one idiom would be recognized as a branch of humanistic social and moral inquiry, and the other as primarily practical and technical.
- ISBN10 019827341X
- ISBN13 9780198273417
- Publish Date 11 May 1989
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 9 July 2003
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Imprint Clarendon Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 149
- Language English