The most recent efforts to revitalize the interpretative approach in Political Science have their genesis in the 1960s, when a number of authors began to defend the centrality of the study of the linguistic and hermeneutic meanings of political phenomena. Among these authors, the philosopher and political scientist Charles Taylor stands out. The texts he wrote between the 1960s and 1970s dealt out severe criticism of the subjective naturalism underlying mainstream Political Science of that time. First, I will contextualize Taylor's contributions to the wider interpretive turn in Political Science. This will be followed by a summary of Quentin Skinner and Clifford Geertz' reservations regarding his work.
Political Science; Naturalism; Interpretivism