Logics of Critical Explanation in Social and Political Theory is a significant contribution to political and social theory from a poststructuralist perspective. The book is erudite, balanced, and supported by revealing case studies, exploring the inner logic of a critical approach and placing it within a rich tapestry of methods and strategies. It is highly accessible and lucid, offering a valuable resource for political scientists, political theorists, and philosophers of the social sciences. The book demonstrates the maturity of poststructural political theory and provides a framework for social research from a poststructuralist perspective. It challenges positivism's universalizing causal laws and offers a new ontology for social and political theory. The book is a valuable tool for scholars and researchers in various social science disciplines, especially political science and political theory. It is also relevant for those interested in social scientific data and the possibility of a 'science' of the social. The book is praised for its philosophical insight, practical use, and its contribution to the discussion of epistemology and ontology. It is a significant work that should be widely debated in the social sciences. The book is a response to the 'Social Science Wars' and offers a novel approach to social and political analysis based on the role of logics. The authors articulate a distinctive perspective on social science explanation that avoids the problems of scientism and subjectivism by steering a careful course between law-like explanations and thick descriptions. The book draws upon hermeneutics, poststructuralism, psychoanalysis, and post-analytical philosophy, offering a particular set of logics – social, political, and fantasmatic – with which to construct critical explanations of practices and regimes. The book is structured into several parts, including a critique of scientism and the current state of affairs in the social and political sciences, and an exploration of the role of logics in social and political analysis. The book is a valuable contribution to the field of social and political theory and is recommended for scholars and researchers in various disciplines. The authors are Jason Glynos and David Howarth, both lecturers in political theory at the University of Essex. The book is part of the Routledge Innovations in Political Theory series.Logics of Critical Explanation in Social and Political Theory is a significant contribution to political and social theory from a poststructuralist perspective. The book is erudite, balanced, and supported by revealing case studies, exploring the inner logic of a critical approach and placing it within a rich tapestry of methods and strategies. It is highly accessible and lucid, offering a valuable resource for political scientists, political theorists, and philosophers of the social sciences. The book demonstrates the maturity of poststructural political theory and provides a framework for social research from a poststructuralist perspective. It challenges positivism's universalizing causal laws and offers a new ontology for social and political theory. The book is a valuable tool for scholars and researchers in various social science disciplines, especially political science and political theory. It is also relevant for those interested in social scientific data and the possibility of a 'science' of the social. The book is praised for its philosophical insight, practical use, and its contribution to the discussion of epistemology and ontology. It is a significant work that should be widely debated in the social sciences. The book is a response to the 'Social Science Wars' and offers a novel approach to social and political analysis based on the role of logics. The authors articulate a distinctive perspective on social science explanation that avoids the problems of scientism and subjectivism by steering a careful course between law-like explanations and thick descriptions. The book draws upon hermeneutics, poststructuralism, psychoanalysis, and post-analytical philosophy, offering a particular set of logics – social, political, and fantasmatic – with which to construct critical explanations of practices and regimes. The book is structured into several parts, including a critique of scientism and the current state of affairs in the social and political sciences, and an exploration of the role of logics in social and political analysis. The book is a valuable contribution to the field of social and political theory and is recommended for scholars and researchers in various disciplines. The authors are Jason Glynos and David Howarth, both lecturers in political theory at the University of Essex. The book is part of the Routledge Innovations in Political Theory series.