A genealogy of political culture
By: Michael Brint
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxon
Language: eng
Number of pages: 158
ISBN-13: 9780429702327; 9780429044632; 9780429742347; 9780429722332
Subjects: Political culture; History; POLITICAL SCIENCE; General
Description: In this lively and witty history of the study of political culture, Michael Brint examines the differences between the French sociological tradition from Montesquieu to Tocqueville; the German tradition of cultural philosophy from Kant to Weber; and the American scientific or behavioral tradition from Almond and Verba forward. Enlisting his own tra
Notes: Michael Brint is assistant professor of government and foreign affairs at the University of Virginia. The recipient of several teaching awards and research fellowships, he is author of Tragedy and Denial: The Politics of Difference in Western Political Thought and coeditor of Pragmatism in Law and Society (both published by Westview Press).
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Playing the Other: The French Sociological Tradition; title: Culture and Consciousness: the Tradition of Cultural Philosophy in Germany; title: The American Science of Political Culture and the Culture of American Political Science