This review commentary offers reflections on some of the key themes of Douglas Torgerson’s refreshing, perceptive and timely study of the work of Harold Lasswell, The Policy Sciences of Harold Lasswell: Contextual Orientation and the Critical Dimension. The commentary attempts to connect those themes to our present with the aim of making a very small contribution to the work demanded by the challenge posed by Torgerson in the final pages of his book – the pursuit of a ‘strategic developmental construct’ inspired by ‘the critical agenda’. To that end, the commentary examines ideas of the future instantiated in the recent United Nations ‘Summit of the Future’, and concludes by reflecting on possible political risks posed by different styles of hermeneutic method.

这篇评论对道格拉斯·托格森 （Douglas Torgerson） 对哈罗德·拉斯韦尔 （Harold Lasswell） 的工作进行了令人耳目一新的、有洞察力的和及时的研究《哈罗德·拉斯韦尔的政策科学：情境取向和批判维度》的一些关键主题的反思。该评论试图将这些主题与我们现在联系起来，目的是为托格森在书的最后几页提出的挑战所要求的工作做出非常小的贡献——追求受“批判议程”启发的“战略发展结构”。为此，该评论考察了最近联合国“未来峰会”中实例化的未来观念，并通过反思不同风格的解释学方法可能带来的政治风险作为结论。