World Ordering: A Social Theory of Cognitive Evolution

ISBN-13: 9781108412674 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 394 str.

Emanuel Adler

Opis

Taking world ordering as international relations theory's primary challenge, Adler suggests cognitive evolution, a practice-based social theory, to explain it.

Recenzje

'Emanuel Adler has been thinking about cognitive evolution, collective meaning, and social construction for a very long time. This book represents a major statement of his mature views, a kind of theoretical summation of decades of scholarship.' Perspectives on Politics

Spis treści

Prologue. The crux of the matter; Part I. Social Constructivism as Cognitive Evolution: 1. Samurai crabs and international social orders; 2. Evolutionary ontology: from being to becoming; 3. Evolutionary epistemology; 4. Practices, background knowledge, communities of practice, social orders; Part II. Cognitive Evolution Theory and International Social Orders: 5. International social orders; 6. Cognitive evolution theory: social mechanisms and processes; 7. Agential social mechanisms; 8. Creative variation; 9. Selective retention; 10. Better practices and bounded progress; Epilogue: world ordering.