Universality, ethics, and international relations : a grammatical reading / Véronique Pin-Fat.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pin-Fat, Véronique, 1965-

Series:

Interventions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International relations--Moral and ethical aspects.

International relations.

Ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (168 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Universality Ethics and International Relations introduces students to the key debates about ethics in international relations theory. This book explores the reasons why grappling with universality and ethics seems to be a profound endeavour and where we end up when we do. By offering a new way of thinking about ethics in International Relations, Pin-Fat shows that there are several varieties of universality which are offered as the answer to ethics in global politics; the divine universality of Hans Morgenthau, the ideal universality of Charles R. Beitz and the binary unive

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Permissions; Introduction; 1 Reading grammatically: Reading, representation and the limits of language; 2 Universality as conjunctive solution: Ethics 'and' International Relations; 3 Divine universality: Morgenthau, alchemy and the national interest; 4 Ideal universality: Beitz, reason and the ghost of Houdini; 5 Binary universality: Walzer, thinning the thick and fattening up the thin; 6 In defence of universality: (Im)possible universalism; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-135-28247-1

1-282-31512-9

9786612315121

0-203-86779-3

9780203867792

OCLC:

526767446