Travelling with vehicular ideas: The case of the third Way
@article{Mclennan2004TravellingWV, title={Travelling with vehicular ideas: The case of the third Way}, author={Gregor Mclennan}, journal={Economy and Society}, year={2004}, volume={33}, pages={484 - 499} }
In all the various debates around Anthony Giddens's Third Way sequence, few attempts have been made to characterize its logic and impact as a type of discourse, a certain mode of ideas-work. The first dimension of this paper involves deploying Thomas Osborne's categories to depict the Third Way as a ‘vehicular’ idea, with the intellectual style of Giddens himself correlatively framed as that of a new sort of ‘mediator’. In these terms, the essential inclusiveness and indeterminacy of the Third…
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