Zum Verhaltnis von Kritik und Disziplinaritat. Wissenschaftstheoretische Argumente fur eine kritische und kritisch-realistisch fundierte Orientierung der Politikwissenschaft
In: Osterreichische Zeitschrift fur Politikwissenschaft, Heft 3, S. 241-258
This article is an intervention into a recent OZP debate on the future of political science as a discipline. Its main goal is to mediate between the respective positions of Ulrich Brand's and Helmut Kramer's conception of a critical project and Thomas Konig's presentation of organisational preliminaries of an academic project of political science. To this end, I firstly reformulate the essentials of a project of critique, referring on a thick notion of critique. Consequently, the relationship of the disciplinary and critical side of political science is rearranged on the basis of an appropriation of certain deliberations on discipline formation and philosophy of science, which centrally draw on the philosophy of Critical Realism. Adapted from the source document.