Critical Theory and International Relations: A Reader

ISBN-13: 9780415954198 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 424 str.

Steven C. Roach

Opis

This innovative new Reader provides students, scholars, and practitioners with a comprehensive overview of essential works of critical theory and critical international relations (IR) theory, including the writings of Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Weber, Horkheimer, Adorno, Marcuse, Habermas, Linklater, and Honneth, among others.

Steven Roach frames each chapter showing the major tensions of four periods of the extension of critical theory into critical IR theory. This rich narrative, telling the story of how critical theory entered into international relations theory, seeks to deepen the reader's historical and sociological understanding of the emancipatory project of critical IR theory. Postmodernist and feminist texts are included to give context to the question of whether the discipline is in crisis or is working toward a cohesive and reflexive framework.

Spis treści

Introduction: From Critical Theory to Critical IR Theory  Part 1: Abstract Universalism and the Critique of Reason 1. The Roots of Critical Theory: German Idealism  Part 2: Historical Materialism  2. Internationalism, Hegemony, and Orthodoxy  3. Psychological Repression and the Perils of Modernity  Part 3: Critical Synthesis  4. The Critique of Instrumental Reason: The Reification of Society  5. State Capitalism: Its Limitations and Possibilities  Part 4: Global Society  6. Normative Basis: Communicative Action and Recognition  7. Normative/Critical IR Theory: The Emancipatory Project and Moral Commitment  8. Global Political Economy: Social Forces and Dialectic  Part 5: A New Critical Phase? Normative Critical Theory and its Critics  9. Postmodern Thought: Genealogy, Power/Knowledge, and Deconstruction  10. Postmodernism and Feminism in IR  11. Normative/Critical IR Theory and its Response

O autorze

Steven C. Roach is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of South Florida.