Crisis theory and world order : Heideggerian reflections / Norman K. Swazo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Swazo, Norman K., 1954-

Series:

SUNY series in global politics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World politics.

International relations--Philosophy.

International relations.

Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976.

Heidegger, Martin.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 289 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In a call to planetary thinking, planetary building, and planetary dwelling, Norman K. Swazo discusses Heidegger's thought as it relates to issues of global politics, specifically, the domain of world order studies. In the first division of the book, Swazo provides a theoretical critique of world order studies understood in the two modes of normative and technocratic futurism. The book's second division includes a preliminary attempt to clarify what Heidegger's call for "essential thinking" entails for political thinking. This signifies a new beginning for political discourse, heralded in the possibility of "essential political thinking" that Swazo calls "autarchology."

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Theoretical Critique

Crisis Theory: The Challenge to Peace Research

The Problem of World Order: Overcoming the Logic of Statecraft

The Metaphysical Ground of World Order Thinking

Planetary Politics and the Essence of Technology

Essential Political Thinking

A Pathway to Essential Political Thinking

The Essence of Political Being

Projecting-Open [Entwurf] with Heidegger

Notes

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-280) and index.

ISBN:

9780791488003

0791488004

9780585490144

0585490147

OCLC:

61367538