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- Title: Systematic Politics
- Author : George E. Gordon Catlin
- Release Date : January 15, 1962
- Genre: Philosophy,Books,Nonfiction,Politics & Current Events,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 1713 KB
Description
Professor Catlin in the course of his career has contributed a
number of major works in the fields of politics: The Science and Method of
Politics (1926), Principles of Politics (1930), History of the
Political Philosophers (1938). These books were considered
"refreshing," "brilliant," "eminently stimulating,"
"genuinely constructive." The trail blazed by their author some thirty
years ago through the forest of "unscientific" political thinking has
since been followed by many others and has widened into one of the main highways of
twentieth-century political though.
The new approach of Professor Catlin was
notable because it distinguished between political philosophy, with its values and
ends, and the scientific study of means; it broke away from older studies and
broadened the concept of Politics, in an Aristotelian sense; it bridged the divorce
between Politics and Sociology; it stressed the quantitative method; it pioneered in
the "power theory of politics," as a key hypothesis in building; and it
developed the theories of equilibrium and of the political market, with its pressure
groups. No political science can be formulated today which ignores his arguments on
these topics.
In this new work, Professor Catlin goes back to cover the
developments of thirty years, integrating the work of his contemporary colleagues
and relating it to the broad tradition of Western philosophy. The range of the
book over time and topics is exhilaratingly wide; its content is often
intellectually intoxicating. Many will appreciate the clear insight and
understanding that the book lends of so much in life–not just in the fields
traditionally assigned to political thinkers; others may be provoked by the
author's strong argumentative sense. No one will deny the vigour and relevance
of the discussion. This summational work is important and practical at a time when
the political endeavours of man are more than ever in need of thoroughly rigorous
logical analysis.
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