Commercium

This book offers a unique analysis of the contradictions and pathologies of the modern international order and develops a new cosmopolitan alternative.

List of contents

Preface, Nancy Fraser / Introduction: Idea for a Critical Theory Conceived with a Cosmopolitan Intention / Part I: Habermas's Critical Theory of Society / 1. The Theory of Communicative Action / 2. The Postnational Constellation / Part II: Lifeworld and Commercium / 3. Kant, Commercium and the Cosmopolitan Problematic / 4. The 'Boundaries' of the Lifeworld / 5. Commercium Beyond Kant / Part III: The Demospathic State and the International System / 6. Systematic Approaches to International Relations / 7. Between Functionalism and Path-Dependence / 8. The Reifying Effects of Reciprocal Force / Part IV: The Tasks of a Critical Theory Conceived with a Cosmopolitan Intention / 9. Critique and Crisis in World Society / Bibliography / Index

About the author

Brian Milstein is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Goethe University Frankfurt. He completed his PhD at the New School for Social Research, where his dissertation was awarded the Hannah Arendt Award in Politics, and he has published articles in the European Journal of Philosophy and the European Journal of Political Theory.

Summary

This book offers a unique analysis of the contradictions and pathologies of the modern international order and develops a new cosmopolitan alternative.

Product details

• Authors: Brian Milstein, Milstein Brian
• Assisted by: Fraser Nancy (Foreword)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.2015
• EAN: 9781783482832
• ISBN: 978-1-78348-283-2
• Series: Reinventing Critical Theory; Reinventing Critical Theory
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Globalization, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, social and political philosophy, Western philosophy from c 1800, Political science and theory, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -