Paipais The Civil Condition in World Politics

Beyond Tragedy and Utopianism
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-5292-2419-1
Verlag: Bristol University Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Bristol Studies in International Theory

Bringing together an international team of contributors, this volume draws on international political theory and intellectual history to rethink the problem of a pluralistic world order.

Inspired by the work of international political theorist Nicholas Rengger, the book focuses on three main areas of Rengger’s contribution to the political theory of international relations: his Augustine-inspired idea of an ‘Anti-Pelagian Imagination’; his Oakeshottian argument for a pluralist ‘conversation of mankind’; and his ruminations on war as the uncivil condition in world politics. Through a critical engagement with his work, the book illuminates the promises and limitations of civility as a sceptical, non-utopian, anti-perfectionist approach to theorizing world order that transcends both realist pessimism and liberal utopianism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Paipais, Vassilios

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Rengger’s anti-Pelagianism: international political theory as civil conversation – Vassilios Paipais

Part 1: Anti-Pelagianism and the Civil Condition in World Politics

2. Revisiting Rengger’s Anti-Pelagianism – Noel O’Sullivan and Sophia Dingli

3. Poetics and Politics: Rengger, Weber, and the Virtuosi of Religion – John-Harmen Valk

4. ‘Keep your mind in hell, and despair not’: Gillian Rose’s anti-Pelagianism – Kate Schick

Part 2: Challenging the Anti-Pelagian Imagination

5. ‘A Dangerous Place to Be’? Nicholas J. Rengger, the English School, and International Disorder – Ian Hall

6. Rengger’s War on Teleocracy – Chris Brown

7. Conservatism, Civility, and the Challenges of International Political Theory – Michael Williams

Part 3: The Uncivil Condition in Word Politics

8. Rengger the Reluctant Rule Follower – Anthony Lang Jr.

9. Rengger and the ‘Business of War’ – Caroline Kennedy-Pipe

10. Just War as Tradition in a Civil International Order – Valerie Morkevicius

Afterword

11. Rengger, History, and the Future of International Relations – Richard Whatmore

Über Autor(innen)

Vassilios Paipais is Lecturer in International Relations at the University of St Andrews.