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The Concept of Political Judgment
Peter J. Steinberger
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Description for The Concept of Political Judgment
Paperback. Is political judgement a science subject to strict standards of logic and inference, or is it an art, the product of intuition and feeling? This book shows how the seemingly contradictory claims of inference and intuition are reconciled in the concept of political judgement. Num Pages: 328 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 481.
What is good political judgement? Is it a science subject to strict standards of logic and inference, or is it something more like an art, the product of intuition, feeling, or even chance? Peter J. Steinberger shows how the seemingly contradictory claims of inference and intuition are reconciled in the concept of political judgement. Resting his argument on the larger notion of judgement itself, Steinberger develops an original model of how political judgements are made and how we justify calling some of them "good." He lays the groundwork with a discussion of the ideas of Machiavelli, de Tocqueville, Nietzsche, Arendt, ... Read more
What is good political judgement? Is it a science subject to strict standards of logic and inference, or is it something more like an art, the product of intuition, feeling, or even chance? Peter J. Steinberger shows how the seemingly contradictory claims of inference and intuition are reconciled in the concept of political judgement. Resting his argument on the larger notion of judgement itself, Steinberger develops an original model of how political judgements are made and how we justify calling some of them "good." He lays the groundwork with a discussion of the ideas of Machiavelli, de Tocqueville, Nietzsche, Arendt, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
317
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226771939
SKU
V9780226771939
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99-50
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