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Cover; Political Science: Reflecting on Concepts,Demystifying Legends; Contents; Introduction; Preface; What Political Science May (Not) Achieve; Specialization and Teamwork: Current Challenges to the Discipline; Political Science and Transition to Democracy: The German Experience; Standing on the Shoulders of Giants; The "Three Pillars of Hell": Hannah Arendt's Concept of Total Rule -Sources, Merits, Limits; Prospects of Pluralist Democracy in an Age of Economic Globalization and World-Wide Migration: A Tribute to Robert A. Dahl
Klaus von Beyme: The Political Scientist as Global Scholar and Public IntellectualTwo Profoundly Different Schools of Political Science; Political Science in Great Britain and Germany: The Roles of LSE and DHfP; From the Berlin Political Studies Institute to Columbia and Yale: Ernst Jaeckh and Arnold Wolfers; Peenemünde:Challenging the Mythof Nonpolitical Technology; Peenemünde, the V-2 and the Exploitation of Slave Labor. A Study in Reactionary Modernism; The Peenemünde Legend: Origins, Perpetuation, Demise; Sources; About the author
Rainer Eisfeld's book highlights the merits of socio-historical research into topics infrequently covered by mainstream political science. Directing attention to the need for carefully scrutinizing the convenient "truths" of established - post-Nazi, post-Communist - political narratives, its chapters encourage reflection of the discipline's history and state of the art. A companion volume to the 2012 book entitled Radical Approaches to Political Science: Roads Less Traveled (also published by Barbara Budrich), this collection is likewise based on an approach to political science informed by a theory of participatory pluralism and grounded in history. The chapters focus on the discipline's fragmentation and its retreat from public debate; on the varying roles of political science and international relations as champions of more or less democracy; on normative and analytical concepts developed by Hannah Arendt, Klaus von Beyme, and Robert A. Dahl; on the deconstruction of the "Peenemünde Legend" about the unspoiled rule of science at the Third Reich's missile development center; on reasons for the Peenemünde engineers' actual complicity in the exploitation of concentration camp labor to mass-produce their V-2 missile. "Rainer Eisfeld's leadership in the fields of pluralism and analysis of the discipline in the International Political Science Association means that he has quite a background to share with us in this, his most recent, collection of essays." John Trent
Rainer Eisfeld, Professor emeritus of Political Science at Osnabrück University, Germany. Rainer Eisfeld has long served as a member of the Buchenwald/ Mittelbau-Dora Concentration Camp Memorial's Board of Trustees and, in recent years, also of the International Political Science Association's Executive Committee. He taught at UCLA as a Visiting Professor.