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Decisionist Imagination: Sovereignty, Social Science and Democracy in the 20th Century

Contributor(s): Bessner, Daniel (Editor), Guilhot, Nicolas (Editor)

ISBN: 9781785339158

Publisher: Berghahn Books

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Pub Date: October 19, 2018

Dewey: 320.019

LCCN: 2018018022

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Index, Price on Product

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.90" H x 9.10" L x 6.00" W ( 1.25 lbs) 320 pages

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Description:

  • This is the first volume to explore decisionism beyond the thought of Carl Schmitt.
  • This is the first volume to trace how decisionism impacted the social sciences in the trans-Atlantic context of the United States and Europe.
  • This is the first volume to explore decisionism from an interdisciplinary perspective.

Brief description:

Daniel Bessner is Associate Professor of International Studies in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington.

Review Quotes:

"The Decisionist Imagination is more an effort to rethink specific aspects of an existing literature and will find a keen readership amongst those who know it." - Journal of Contemporary History

"The Decisionist Imagination expertly outlines the development of a key component of social scientific thought, placing it into historical context across the whole of the twentieth century, providing a systematic analysis and evaluation of a core concept present in virtually all academic fields." - Inderjeet Parmar, City University of London

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