Constitutionalism, the Public Philosophy, and Political Science.(failure of the discipline)

From: Perspectives on Political Science | Date: January 1, 2001| Author: MARINI, JOHN | Copyright information

What is the crisis of public philosophy, and how should political science address that crisis? The failure of the discipline of political science to identify a crisis and the inability to recognize a public philosophy lie at the heart of the crisis. From its birth at the end of the nineteenth century, modern political science, a product of progressive thought, was intended to be the science of the State.(1) As such it was characterized by hostility to constitutionalism and to the p...

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