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Who of the following lamented the ‘death’ of political philosophy ?

In his introduction to the first series of Philosophy, Politics and Society (1956), British political theorist Peter Laslett famously declared that “for the moment, anyway,…

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In his introduction to the first series of Philosophy, Politics and Society (1956), British political theorist Peter Laslett famously declared that “for the moment, anyway, political philosophy is dead,” lamenting the mid-twentieth-century eclipse of grand normative political theory by logical positivism and linguistic analysis.

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