"These shortcomings lead Shapiro to recommend that we conceive the vocation of political theory as essentially critical, a gadfly within the larger discipline of political science: 'Political theorists have an important role to play in exhibiting what is at stake in taking one [descriptive] cut rather than another'; to display the presuppositions of these descriptions, and propose alternatives.
"Shapiro offers this as an alternative to what too often transpires in political theory: the perpetuation of highly abstract polemics by constant recourse to what he calls 'gross concepts.'"
Matthew B. Crawford in The New Atlantis reviews Ian Shapiro's The Flight from Reality in the Human Sciences.
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