Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Social Science Wars

Social Science Wars I

Social Science Wars II

Debating the Foundations of Political Science

Sciences of Uncertainty

I: Science Turned Upside Down

Philosophy, Foundationalism, and Linguistic Pragmatism

Rorty's View of Natural Science

Conclusion

II: In Defense of Disunity

Pragmatic Naturalism and the Social Sciences

Hermeneutics Revisited

Conclusion

III: The Politics of Redescription

Redescription Applied

Contingency, Self-Creation, and Change

Redescription and Politics

Conclusion

IV: Reclaiming the Language of Emancipation

Roy Bhaskar's Critical Realism

Critical Realism as a Philosophy for the Sciences

Critical Naturalism, and the Stakes of Social Inquiry

Ontology, Causation, and Social Criticism, and Social Criticism

Conclusion

V: Sciences that Disturb

Pierre Bourdieu's 'Fieldwork in Philosophy'

From the Practice of Theory to the Theory of Practice

Ordinary Violences

Conclusion

Conclusion: Pluralism, Power, Perestroika, and Political Inquiry

Perestroika and Methodological Pluralism

Hegemonic Political Science and Methodological Monism

The Contest of Methodological Disunity

Revitalizing Political Inquiry

Notes

Index

Keith Topper is Assistant Professor of Communication Studies and Political Science at Northwestern University.