Thomas Kuhn on Political Revolutions and Institutions

„Political revolutions aim to change political institutions in ways that those institutions themselves prohibit. Their success therefore necessitates the partial relinquishment of one set of institutions in favor of another, and in the interim, society is not fully governed by institutions at all“

Thomas KuhnThomas Kuhn analyzes political revolutions as transitional phases between institutional orders and new political structures.
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Thomas Kuhn was an American physicist, philosopher of science, and historian of science.

Thomas Kuhn describes political revolutions as transitions in which existing institutional orders are partially suspended in favor of new structures.


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Thomas Kuhn quote about political revolutions and the temporary loss of institutional governance

Thomas Samuel Kuhn (1922–1996) was one of the influential philosophers of science of the 20th century. In his major work, “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions,” he described the development of science as a sequence of periods of normal science interrupted by scientific revolutions. He is particularly associated with the concept of the paradigm shift and with the idea that different paradigms may be incommensurable.

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