political theory would generally be considered to be of interest only to students of political theory, a kind of in-group activity intelligible only to the initiated. In The Crisis of Political Theory Om Bakshi argues that this perception of the irrelevance of political theory for political practice is itself a symptom to the malaise which affects political theory in our times. He traces the roots of the disease to the influence on contemporary theory of certain dominant modes of inquiry
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