¿Cuál ciencia de la política? Estudio introductorio a propósito de la réplica de Hans Kelsen a Eric Voegelin

Faced with Eric Voegelin’s ideas on the need to reconstruct Political Science, in the face of the destruction caused by positivism, his teacher Hans Kelsen gave a response in 1954 which he finally did not publish. However, his views on Voegelin’s proposal are known posthumously. This paper focuses its interest on the epistemological elements of political science in contemporaneity, trying to intercede critically between these two positions that seem to mix, in Weberian terms, an ethics of conviction with an ethics of responsibility. In this way, through a correlational methodology, during two central chapters, in addition to the conclusions, the reasons and content of Kelsen’s response to Voegelin are critically investigated.