This chapter proposes to reflect upon the impact of postmodern thought on contemporary debates concerning the nature and purpose of politics. Within the context of this study, the in-depth analysis of the differences between modern and postmodern conceptions of politics is crucial in one respect: it illustrates the normative implications of the paradigmatic shifts shaped by current controversies regarding key issues in epistemology, methodology, sociology, and historiography. Without a critical engagement with, and an idiosyncratic understanding of, politics, postmodern thought would be tantamount to a free-floating and self-referential language game based on rhetorical speculation. For there is not much point in theorizing for the sake of theorizing. From an intellectual point of view, little — if anything — can be gained from creating interpretive or explanatory frameworks without considering the substantive challenges arising from the conscious coordination of human actions and from the meaningful organization of social life.