Justice, community, and dialogue in international relations / Richard Shapcott.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shapcott, Richard, author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in international relations ; 79.

Cambridge studies in international relations ; 79

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International relations--Moral and ethical aspects.

International relations.

Justice (Philosophy).

Poststructuralism.

Internationalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 260 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Justice, Community & Dialogue in International Relations

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Shapcott investigates the question of justice in a culturally diverse world, asking if it is possible to conceive of a universal or cosmopolitan community in which justice to difference is achieved. Justice to difference is possible, according to Shapcott, by recognising the particular manner in which different humans identify themselves. Such recognition is most successfully accomplished through acts of communication, and in particular, conversation. The accounts of understanding developed by H. G. Gadamer provide a valuable way forward in this field. The philosophical hermeneutic account of conversation allows for the development of a level of cosmopolitan solidarity that is both 'thin' and universal, and which helps to provide a more just resolution of the tension between the values of community and difference. Students and scholars of international relations, international ethics and philosophy will be interested in this original study.

Contents:

1. Beyond the cosmopolitan/communitarian divide

2. Communication and community in interpretative theories of international relations

3. Emancipation and legislation: the boundaries of conversation in poststructuralism and the critical theory of IR

4. Philosophical hermeneutics: understanding, practical reasoning and human solidarity

5. Philosophical hermeneutics and its critics

6. Towards a thin cosmopolitanism.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-247) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-12004-7

0-511-01703-0

1-280-42965-8

0-511-17491-8

0-511-15501-8

0-511-32858-3

0-511-49167-0

0-511-05007-0

OCLC:

475914864