Luciano Nosetto, Tomás Wieczorek (Eds.). (2020). Métodos de teoría política: un manual. Universidad de Buenos Aires, Instituto de Investigaciones Gino Germani, Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales. 184 pp.

Abstract

In an enterview with Günter Gaus, in 1964, Hannah Arendt explained that political theory was a gender by himself: neither a political phylosopy nor a empirical social science. This opened a field of studys at the same time it would fade his metodological especificity. Métodos de teoría política: un manual (2020) takes care of this lake in knowledge and present us an inventary of methods. The book traverse not only one but eight possible estrategies: history of ideas, intellectual history, conceptual history, hermeneutics, deconstruction, understanding of the Event, arqueology/genealogy and critical theory. Having said that, in addition of settle a debt with the discipline, what is interesting about this proposal is that avoids any prescriptive character: if the political is something plural, it is not possible to speak about just one authentic method. So, we find in this book possible tools that furthermore can be combinate between them.