Le politique, concept mystificateur?
- 1 March 1984
- journal article
- sommaire
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Canadian Journal Of Political Science-Revue Canadienne De Science Politique
- Vol. 17 (1) , 49-64
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0008423900051258
Abstract
Searching for the meaning of politics is time lost. Introduced by the Ancient Greeks, the concept of politics came to be understood by subsequent authors as the most meaningful of the social sciences. It has been reduced to a secondary status, however, with the growth of sociology. The term has become loaded with meaning, to the level of the inexpressible. Attempts at delimiting it have been fruitless except for nominalist definitions which are evaluated for their heuristic character within a given theoretical discourse. The analyst should look for social relations instead of given social objects.Keywords
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