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Possibilidades De Uma História Pragmática Do Político, William J. Novak, Stephen W. Sawyer
Possibilidades De Uma História Pragmática Do Político, William J. Novak, Stephen W. Sawyer
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This essay is an initial attempt to posit a method which has slowly taken shape through our individual and collaborative investigations into the history of democracy in the United States and France. Our overall approach builds on a number of diverse methodological influences, but in this particular essay we highlight just two of the most influential precedents for our work: first, the pragmatic-hermeneutical approach most explicitly outlined by James T. Kloppenberg in his “Thinking Historically : A Manifesto of Pragmatic Hermeneutics” and second, Pierre Rosanvallon's methodological essays on the theme of “Une histoire conceptuelle du politique,” which he launched with …