Beyond reason: Postcolonial theory and the social sciences: Sanjay Seth Oxford University Press, New York, 2021, x+252pp., ISBN: 978-0197500583.

Nonetheless, Seth's critique should prove fruitful to anyone interested in these questions, especially since it encourages further dialogue between theoretical perspectives that, as Seth notes, have tended - with few exceptions - to neglect one another. Since political science is an "archipelago" of subdisciplines and thus prevents a unified disciplinary anatomy (p. 147), Seth focuses on the subdisciplines of international relations (chapter 5) and political theory (chapter 6). While Seth does not always provide clear guidance on how to utilize the book's anatomies, they nonetheless offer, both explicitly and implicitly, insights and suggestions for the improvement of the social sciences. [Extracted from the article]

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