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metapolitics, n. pl.|mɛtəˈpɒlɪtɪks|
Also occas. sing. metapolitic.
[See meta- 1.]
Abstract political science; the investigation of the speculative basis of political doctrines; contemptuously, unpractical political theorizing.
1784De Lolme Eng. Const. ii. xvii. (ed. 4) 419 note, It may, if the reader pleases, belong to the Science of Metapolitics, in the same sense as we say Metaphysics. 1809–10Coleridge Friend (1818) I. 309 note, As ‘Metaphysics’ are the science which determines what can, and what can not, be known of Being..so might the philosophy of Rousseau and his followers not inaptly be entitled, Metapolitics, and the Doctors of this School, Metapoliticians. 1889Campion in Lux Mundi xi. 461 Every statesman..has consciously or unconsciously such a metapolitic. |