Martin Wight on Fortune and Irony in Politics

Informationen zum Autor Michele Chiaruzzi teaches International Relations in the Università di Bologna, Italy. Klappentext Martin Wight was one of the most influential twentieth-century British thinkers who investigated on international politics and continues to inspire the English school of international relations. Containing a previously unpublished essay by Wight, this book brings this essay, "Fortune's Banter", to light. The importance of imponderable elements on human affairs is well understood, at least since the dawn of Western culture. The reversals and incongruities of life are common events. Fortune and irony are categories of practical understanding, but they also describe the most ancient and fundamental experience in politics. It is this experience in which Michele Chiaruzzi examines Martin Wight's seminal philosophy. Martin Wight on Fortune and Irony in Politics provides awareness of imponderable factors in politics that tends to mitigate their role and is an antidote to political dogmatism. Zusammenfassung Martin Wight was one of the most influential twentieth-century British thinkers who investigated on international politics and continues to inspire the English school of international relations. Containing a previously unpublished essay by Wight, this book brings this essay, "Fortune's Banter", to light. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Wight's Intent: Text, Context, Method The Wind of Politics. Disputing Determinism A Polemical Reflex The Essence of Political Realism: Tragedy or Irony? Fortune and Irony as Experiential Acquisitions The Causal and Moral Complexity of Politics Velle Non Discitur? The Impact of Will in Politics Resisting Destiny

Product details

• Authors: M Chiaruzzi, M. Chiaruzzi, Michele Chiaruzzi
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.02.2016
• EAN: 9781137528728
• ISBN: 978-1-137-52872-8
• No. of pages: 202
• Series: The Palgrave Macmillan History of International Thought; Palgrave MacMillan History of; The Palgrave Macmillan History of International Thought
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political system; Internationale Beziehungen, Europa, Chance, B, History: specific events & topics, Geschichte: Ereignisse und Themen, European Politics, Political Science, International Relations, Fate, Destiny, Political science & theory, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Political History, Political Science and International Studies, World Politics, Scientism, Great Britain—Politics and government, British Politics, causation, Politikwissenschaft und politische Theorie, Tyche, Fatalism, peripeteia