Orders of Discourse is a dense . . . and challenging book, nearly breathtaking in its scope.

James F. Pontuso, Institute of United States Studies, Perspectives on Political Science

This book presents the most systematic and powerful statement of John Gunnell's Wittgenstein-inspired critique of the epistemological project of validating political theory and the social sciences.

John Horton, Keele University, Political Science

In a number of chapters Gunnell shows how various metapractices have claimed far too much for themselves and have consequently impeded progress or right understanding in the practices on which they reflect.

The Review of Politics

This interesting and provocative book marks the culmination of Gunnell's work in recent years on the relationship between philosophy and social science.

International Science Review

Sobering and provocative book.

Ethics: An International Journal of Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy

Worth reading even if only for its synoptic accounts of virtually every contemporary theorist of note. Highly recommended...

D.H. Rice, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Choice Reviews