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1 online resource |
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Cover; Critical International Theory: An Intellectual History; Copyright; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Contents; Introduction; STRUCTURE OF THE BOOK; 1: International Relations before Critical Theory: Methodenstreit and the Rise of Theory; INTRODUCTION; WHY THERE IS NOW INTERNATIONAL THEORY; A SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION FOR POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS?; 'The Young Science of International Politics'; COMBATTING THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION; Hans J. Morgenthau and the Tragedy of Scientific Man; Interpretation and the Science of Politics; Hedley Bull and the Defence of the Classical Approach |
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MORGENTHAU'S NIGHTMARE: WALTZ AND THE RETURN OF RATIONALIST ABSTRACTIONKenneth Waltz and the Commitment to Theoretical Abstraction; CONCLUSION: WALTZ'S LEGACY AND THE IMMEDIATE CONTEXT FOR CRITICAL INTERNATIONAL THEORY; 2: Revisiting the Sources of Critical International Theory; THE FRANKFURT SCHOOL OF CRITICAL SOCIAL THEORY; Critical Theory v Traditional Theory; FROM GERMAN IDEALISM TO HISTORICAL MATERIALISM; Kant; Hegel; Marx; From German Idealism and Marxism to Critical Theory; THE ENLIGHTENMENT; Kant, Enlightenment, and Signs of History; CONCLUSION |
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3: International Relations Meets Critical TheoryINTRODUCTION; THE CRITICAL TURN; INSIDE/OUTSIDE CRITICAL INTERNATIONAL THEORY: THE CASE OF R. B. J. WALKER; RICHARD K. ASHLEY ON HUMAN INTERESTS AND THE DIALECTICS OF RATIONALITY; Domination and the Modern Security Problematique; ANDREW LINKLATER AND A NORMATIVE-POLITICAL THEORY OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS; Kant, Marx, and Dialectical-Philosophical History; ROBERT W. COX ON THE DIALECTICAL PRODUCTION OF HISTORY; Historical Materialism as Critical Theory; CONCLUSION; 4: Crisis and Critique: Critical International Theory Today; INTRODUCTION |
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ENLIGHTENMENT, REFLEXIVITY, AND THE POLITICS OF KNOWLEDGECritical Theory's Task of Enlightenment; Immanent Critique; Critical Theory's Task of Emancipation; RETHINKING INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: TOWARDS EMANCIPATION; The Normative Dimension: The Critique of Ethical Particularism and Social Exclusion; The Sociological Dimension: States, Social Forces, and Changing World Orders; The Praxeological Dimension: Cosmopolitanism and Discourse Ethics; CONCLUSION; 5: Critical International Theory in Historical Mode; INTRODUCTION; REVISITING THE SOURCES OF CRITICAL INTERNATIONAL THEORY |
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Cox's disavowal of the Frankfurt School and EnlightenmentRIVAL ENLIGHTENMENTS AND ALTERNATIVE SOURCES OF CRITICAL THEORY; Conventional Enlightenment Historiographies: Philosophical Interpretations; Multiple Enlightenments, Revisionist Historiographies; RECOVERING A HISTORICAL MODE OF THOUGHT: FROM THE RENAISSANCE TO THE ENLIGHTENMENT; Renaissance Rivalries: Humanist Historiographies and the Subversion of Scholastic Philosophy; Absolutist Historiographies and Enlightenment Civil Histories; A HISTORICAL MODE OF KNOWLEDGE: THE EXAMPLE OF GIAMBATTISTA VICO |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed July 11, 2018) |
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International relations -- History.
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International relations -- Philosophy.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780192556608 (electronic bk.) |
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0192556606 (electronic bk.) |
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