Scientific Man and the New Science of Politics

Behr, H; Sigwart, HJ

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-67498-8

Scientific Man and the New Science of Politics

Lookup NU author(s): Professor Hartmut Behr

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Abstract

This chapter compares Hans Morgenthau’s Scientific Man vs Power Politics and Eric Voegelin’s The New Science of Politics along three aspects which characterize these books and their authors’ position as émigré scholars: first, along their émigré scholarship; second, along their critique of scientism; and third, with regard to their self-localization as intellectuals. This comparison also demonstrates, too, next to similar experiences of émigré scholar, their very different biographical and social experiences, and philosophical positions within an academic field whose mainstream pushed hard for very different forms of political science than Morgenthau and Voegelin pursued in their own work, being socialized and committed to European “Geistes”- and “Erfahrungswissenschaften”.