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Zusatztext ...this already shows how thought-provoking and engaging Levine's work is. He deserves the highest praise, not only for the vigor of his argument but also for the clarity of his thought and style.. This might well be the best introduction to critical international relations theory. ... Highly recommended. Informationen zum Autor Daniel J. Levine is Visiting Assitant Professor of Political Science at Colgate University. Klappentext Surveying six decades of scholarship, Recovering International Relations suggests new ethical and methodological foundations for the study of world politics. IR is conceived as a vocation; one that must balance the insights of normative and empirical theory against each other to address a densely populated, heavily armed, and persistently diverse world. Zusammenfassung Recovering International Relations bridges two key divides in contemporary IR: between 'value-free' and normative theory, and between reflective, philosophically inflected explorations of ethics in scholarship and close, empirical studies of practical problems in world politics. Featuring a novel, provocative and detailed survey of IR's development over the second half of the twentieth century, the work draws on early Frankfurt School social theory to suggest a new ethical and methodological foundation for the study of world politics-sustainable critique-which draws these disparate approaches together in light of their common aims, and redacts them in the face of their particular limitations. Understanding the discipline as a vocation as well as a series of academic and methodological practices, sustainable critique aims to balance the insights of normative and empirical theory against each other. Each must be brought to bear if scholarship is to meaningfully, and responsibly, address an increasingly dense, heavily armed, and persistently diverse world. Inhaltsverzeichnis Tables Figures Introduction: Sustainable Critique and the Lost Vocation of International Relations The Lost Vocation Critique and the Loss of Vocation Sustainable Critique (1): The Problem of Reification Sustainable Critique (2): Reification in International Theory Sustainable Critique (3): Chastened Reason Plan of the Work Chapter One: "For We Born After:" The Challenge of Sustainable Critique Between Comte and Catastrophe Sustainable Critique as an Ethical Commitment: The Animus Habitandi The Ethical Lacuna in IR: Three Examples From Critique to Sustainable Critique 'Non-Identity' and Negative Dialectics A Logical Impasse? Chapter Two: Sustainable Critique and Critical IR Theory: Against Emancipation A New Hope: Emancipation in Critical IR Theory Post-National Liberalism and Pragmatism The Adornian Alternative: Constellation and a Hermeneutic Turn Concretizing the Constellation in IR: Allison's Essence of Decision Toward Sustainable Critique: Concluding Thoughts Chapter Three: The Realist Dilemma: Politics and the Limits of Theory The 'Dutch Boy Syndrome': Morgenthau's Despairing Vocation 1. Morgenthau's Positive Dialectics 2. The Limits of Positive Dialectics: Reification, Despair, Backlash 3. From Reification to Sustainable Critique: Morgenthau's Missed Opportunity Reification by "Ontological Smuggling": Waltz's Middle-Range Realism Epistemological Lowballing: Wendt's 'Third Way' Concluding Thoughts: Critical Realism and Sustainable Critique Chapter Four: Communitarian IR Theory: "The Common Socius of us All" IR-Liberalism: Two Traditions Between Community and Individual Plan of the Chapter Metaphysical Communitarianism: Functionalism 1. The Fabian Impasse 2. The Mitranyan Breakthrough The 'Wise Android': Deutsch's Cybernetic Turn 'Third-way' Communitarianism and the Primacy of Vision: Adler Concluding Thoughts: From Communitarian to Individualist IR
