95 Theses on Politics, Culture, and Method (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780300100112)

When Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses on the church door at Wittenberg, he offered a challenge to the dominant establishment of which he was a member. In this provocative book, political scientist Anne Norton proposes 95 theses that launch a brilliant, witty polemic against the reigning orthodoxies in her own field. Rejecting the antiquated and stultifying models encountered in textbooks and in courses on methodology and championed by the self-appointed gatekeepers of a narrow and parochial political science, Norton opens the gates to new practices, new principles, new questions, more methods, and more demanding ethical and scientific criteria. Practice, she argues, has outstripped old models and conventional standards. Drawing on the most daring and rigorous work in structuralism, poststructuralism, postcolonialism, cultural studies, literary theory, institutional analysis, and the philosophy of science, she offers practical advice for students of politics, culture, and method.

Author: Anne Norton
ISBN-10: 0300100116
ISBN-13: 9780300100112
Publisher: Yale University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2003
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.68lbs
Size: 8.66h x 6.08w x 0.64d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 12/22/2003