Unit-2 Theorising The Political

This Unit deals with the various relevant concerns of political philosophising/theorising.

What are the ‘broad’ and the ‘narrow’ view of politics/political phenomenon?

Enumerate and describe the salient features of either the historical or the sociological approach to studying politics.

Distinguish between the philosophical and the integrated approaches to studying politics.

Comment on the autonomous character of political science.

Distinguish between normative and empirical political theory.

Comment on the contemporary relevance of classics of politics.

Discuss the views of either Michael Oakeshott or Hannah Arendt.

Discuss the views of either Eric Voegelin or Christian Bay.

Discuss the views of either Michael Oakeshott or Hannah Arendt.

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His major contribution was to recover political theory as a tradition of enquiry and regain for political science, the possibility of a critical, theoretical analysis. As different from the behaviouralists, who were beginning to make a mark in the United States of America when he was enunciating a different kind of doctrine in his lectures and seminars to his students at the London School of Economics and through his publications.
Both believe that politics has a potentiality for creative activity and should not be transformed into the dead uniformity of administration. Both are against totalitarianism, which threatens to become the predominant phenomenon of the twentieth century, and have tried to examine its intellectual and moral roots.