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A Philosophy of Politics
Ascoli, Max | October 10, 1936 issue

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This article focuses on the book "Politics, Who Gets What, When, How," by Harold D. Lasswell. This new book offers to uninitiated readers an opportunity to become acquainted with the orientations and formulas that Harold Lasswell has been elaborating for several years Lasswell's aim is to substitute for liberal-moralistic and marxist-deterministic criteria of scientific analysis some more comprehensive and elastic intellectual patterns. These patterns are not meant to exert any formative influence on political reality, neither are they devised for the exclusive sake of knowledge.

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POLITICS: Who Gets What, When, How (Book); POLITICS, Practical; LASSWELL, Harold D.; BOOKS; COMMUNISM; INTELLECT
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