Systematic Politics
Systematic Politics by George E. Gordon Catlin, published by University of Toronto Press on December 15, 1962, spans 452 pages and is presented in English. This work reflects on the evolution of political thought over three decades, integrating insights from contemporary scholars while connecting them to the broader tradition of Western philosophy. Catlin’s approach distinguishes between political philosophy and the scientific study of political means, emphasizing the importance of quantitative methods and the “power theory of politics.”
Readers will find a comprehensive exploration of political science that addresses various topics, including political philosophy, social history, and the interplay between politics and sociology. Catlin’s arguments challenge traditional views and offer a vigorous discussion relevant to contemporary political endeavors. This edition serves as a summation of his influential ideas, providing clarity and insight into the complexities of political life and thought.
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Professor Catlin in the course of his career has contributed a
number of major works in the fields of politics: The Science and Method of
Politics (1926), Principles of Politics (1930), History of the
Political Philosophers (1938). These books were considered
“refreshing,” “brilliant,” “eminently stimulating,”
“genuinely constructive.” The trail blazed by their author some thirty
years ago through the forest of “unscientific” political thinking has
since been followed by many others and has widened into one of the main highways of
twentieth-century political though.
The new approach of Professor Catlin was
notable because it distinguished between political philosophy, with its values and
ends, and the scientific study of means; it broke away from older studies and
broadened the concept of Politics, in an Aristotelian sense; it bridged the divorce
between Politics and Sociology; it stressed the quantitative method; it pioneered in
the “power theory of politics,” as a key hypothesis in building; and it
developed the theories of equilibrium and of the political market, with its pressure
groups. No political science can be formulated today which ignores his arguments on
these topics.
In this new work, Professor Catlin goes back to cover the
developments of thirty years, integrating the work of his contemporary colleagues
and relating it to the broad tradition of Western philosophy. The range of the
book over time and topics is exhilaratingly wide; its content is often
intellectually intoxicating. Many will appreciate the clear insight and
understanding that the book lends of so much in life–not just in the fields
traditionally assigned to political thinkers; others may be provoked by the
author’s strong argumentative sense. No one will deny the vigour and relevance
of the discussion. This summational work is important and practical at a time when
the political endeavours of man are more than ever in need of thoroughly rigorous
logical analysis.
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