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Une exploration de l'innovation intellectuelle dans les sciences politiques, de l'émergence de nouvelles idées, de l'introduction et de la validation de concepts et de méthodes innovantes au sein de la discipline. Les contributeurs s'intéressent notamment aux avancées de dix penseurs influents, tels que Schmitt, Polanyi, Gramsci, Goffman, Butler ou Blyth. ©Electre 2026
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Sitting on the Shoulders of Giants
A Retrospective View on Innovation in Political Science
How does the discipline of political science change ? How are new ideas produced ? How are they validated and rewarded ? Do disciplines evolve primarily through internal developments or through external contributions ? Through gradual evolutions or revolutions ? Does change occur by importing ideas and insights from neighbouring disciplines, by challenging disciplinary boundaries, or through incursions into political science made by scholars from more or less proximate disciplinary fields ?
Sitting on the Shoulders of Giants explores how intellectual innovation happens in political science ; how new ideas emerge ; how novel concepts and methods are introduced and validated in the discipline. It focuses on the intellectual contributions of nine influential authors, including Carl Schmitt, Karl Polanyi, Antonio Gramsci, Erving Goft'man, Peter L, Berger, Barbara Geddes, Judith Butler, Andrew Moravcsik and Mark Blylh.
While recognizing the role of agency and contingency, the book draws on the heuristic concepts of layering, displacement, and conversion to highlight the path dependency of change in political science. By tracing different pathways to change, it shows that innovation generally is gradual, context-dependent, and shaped by circulations across disciplinary boundaries.
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