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[Navdeep Mathur]

*New in Paperback*

*Logics of Critical Explanation in Social and Political
Theory<http://www.routledge.com/9780415462129>
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*Series: **Routledge Innovations in Political Theory*

*Jason Glynos *and *David Howarth,* both at University of Essex, UK.

*...an exceptionally valuable contribution to political and social theory
from a poststructuralist perspective.**
Michael Freeden, Professor of Politics, Oxford University*

*...a remarkable book, not only due to its rigour and scope, but also
because of its sustained effort to engage with the most important
contemporary currents in social explanation and social theory...this is the
most significant attempt so far at elaborating a general framework for
social research from a poststructuralist perspective. **
**Ernesto Laclau, Professor of Humanities and Rhetorical Studies,
Northwestern University, USA and Professor of Politics, Department of
Government, University of Essex, UK*

*...a unique book in the philosophy of the social sciences, one that
appreciates an element of chanciness in the world as it retains the ambition
to explain. An indispensable book for those who are dissatisfied with the
options available today.**
William E. Connolly, Professor of Political Science, Johns Hopkins
University, USA*

*This edifying book is a tremendous accomplishment...This is careful yet
imaginative scholarship, worthy of widespread attention across the social
sciences**.**
Hugh T. Miller, Professor of Public Administration, Florida Atlantic
University, USA*

*Logics of Critical Explanation in Social and Political Theory* proposes a
novel approach to practising social and political analysis based on the role
of logics. The authors articulate a distinctive perspective on social
science explanation that avoids the problems of scientism and subjectivism
by steering a careful course between lawlike explanations and thick
descriptions. Drawing upon hermeneutics, poststructuralism, psychoanalysis,
and post-analytical philosophy, this new approach offers a particular set of
logics "social, political and fantasmatic" with which to construct critical
explanations of practices and regimes.

While the first part of the book critically engages with lawlike,
interpretivist and causal approaches to critical explanation, the second
part elaborates an alternative grammar of concepts informed by an
ontological stance rooted in poststructuralist theory. In developing this
approach, a number of empirical cases are included to illustrate its basic
concepts and logics, ranging from the apartheid regime in South Africa to
recent changes in higher education.

*Selected Contents:* Introduction 1. Retroduction 2. Contextualized
Self-Interpretations 3. Causal Mechanisms 4. Ontology 5. Logics 6.
Articulation Conclusion

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