The mightie frame : epochal change and the modern world / Nicholas Greenwood Onuf.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Onuf, Nicholas Greenwood, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International relations--Philosophy.

International relations.

International relations--Social aspects.

Constructivism (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

271 pages ; 25 cm

Other Title:

Epochal change and the modern world

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]

Summary:

"Nicholas Onuf is one of the originators of constructivist theory in international relations, and is credited with providing the school of thought with its name. His writings have focused on how rules for governing have come to be, arguing that "rules for rule" have solidified over time through repeated behaviors that work themselves out into a system of social uniformity and hierarchy. Rules set out who is a member of society, establish goals, provide opportunities to act, and dictate who sits on top -- i.e., what any political society looks like in a particular time and place. This book looks at the political society that has evolved since the Renaissance, or what might be called "the modern world" in order to consider what is yet to come. Like Foucault, Onuf sees the rules of governance changing in tandem with changes in the way a society thinks -- what together constitute any society's "mighty frame". Unlike Foucault, Onuf argues that modernism marked an end to societal and political transitions, and that we have entered a period during which established conditions of rule are likely to be reinforced-and the mighty frame grow ever mightier"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

What can we know?

Modernity's mighty frame

Traditional societies

Transitional figures : Hugo Grotius, Thomas Hobbes, Samuel Pufendorf

Interlude : 'working models'

'This quarter of the globe'

Transitional figures : Immanuel Kant, Adam Smith, James Madison

State-nations

Transitional figures : Edmund Husserl, Emile Durkheim, the Fabian Society

Interlude : growth rates

Epochal destruction

Transitional figures : J.L. Austin, Jay Forrester, Donna Haraway

Paradise lost?

Relative virtue

Epilogue : 'saving constructivism.'

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Onuf, Nicholas Greenwood, author. Mightie frame

ISBN:

9780190879808

0190879807

OCLC:

1022079798

Publisher Number:

40028386398