Global limits : Immanuel Kant, international relations, and critique of world politics / Mark F.N. Franke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Franke, Mark F. N., 1963-

Series:

SUNY series in global politics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International relations--Philosophy.

International relations.

Political science--Philosophy.

Political science.

Physical Description:

x, 265 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2001]

Contents:

Introduction: Kant in International Relations 1

Politics of Theory Confronts the World 3

Interests, Arguments, and Chapters 16

Chapter 1 The Rendering of Kant in International Relations Theory 25

Readings of Perpetual Peace 28

Requirements of a 'Kantian' Paradox 44

Masking International Relations in Perpetual Peace 53

The Need for Philosophical Reflection 60

Chapter 2 Kant and the (Im)Possibility of International Relations Theory 65

Kant's Refusal of Traditional Debates 68

Kant's Challenge to Conventional Attitudes 82

Conditions for the Possibility of Theorizing International Relations 92

Enlightenment and the Impossibility of International Relations Theory 105

Chapter 3 Critique of World Politics 111

Judgment and the World 116

Kant's Geopolitics 128

Beauty and the Beast: Extending Leviathan to the World 134

Beginnings of a Critical Approach Toward World Politics 151

Chapter 4 From World Politics to Politics (in 'the World') 155

Enlightenment as a Limit Attitude 160

A Limit Attitude for the Study of World Politics 169

Imperatives of Responsibility 178

Doubting World Politics 190

Conclusion: Global Limits 195.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-255) and index.

ISBN:

0791449874

0791449882

OCLC:

44750761