A Study of Four Contemporary Approaches to Political Theory

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10.30465/cps.2019.4347

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Different approaches to political theory, should be seen as reflection of the contemporary changes in attitudes of thinkers towards epistemological and methodological situation of the philosophy, science, and politics. Quarrels about the political theory, are also the same quarrels about those issues through 20th century and fairly in recent two decades. In this situation, we can find a spectre of approaches in which, on the one side "politicaltheory" is considered as a paradoxical term that is not actually possible at all, and on the other side, it is necessary for political life. But, what matters today, and is the aim of this article too, is that by the end of domination of positivism on the political knowledge, and polemical reactions to it, how we can improve the efficacy of political theorizing by the careful examination of strengths and weaknesses of the contemporary approaches to the political theory.

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