Rationality in Politics and its Limits

Is political rationality a matter of economic calculation, moral judgment, cultural interpretation, scientific demonstration, or pragmatic realism? How can these aspects of politics be reconciled? This book explores the understanding of rationality in politics and the relations between different approaches to rationality. Among the topics considered are the limits of rationality, the role of imagination and emotion in politics, the meaning of political realism, the nature of political judgment, and the relationship between theory and practice. This book was originally published as a special issue of Global Discourse.