Uncertainty and Its Discontents

Worldviews in World Politics
Herausgeber: Katzenstein, Peter J

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Worldviews are the unexamined, pre-theoretical foundations of the approaches with which we understand and navigate the world, and this volume provides the first major study of worldviews in international relations. Advances in twentieth century physics and cosmology questioning anthropocentrism have fostered the articulation of alternative worldviews, rivalling conventional Newtonian humanism and its assumption that the world is constituted by controllable risks. This matters for accepting uncertainties that are an indelible part of many spheres of life including public health, the environment, finance, security and politics ¿ uncertainties that are concealed by the conventional presumption that the world is governed only by risk. The confluence of risk and uncertainty requires an awareness of alternative worldviews, alerts us to possible intersections between humanist Newtonianism and hyper-humanist Post-Newtonianism, and reminds us of the relevance of science, religion and moral values in world politics. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 694g
• ISBN-13: 9781316512661
• ISBN-10: 1316512665
• Artikelnr.: 63872150

Inhaltsangabe

Preface; 1. Worldviews in world politics Peter J. Katzenstein; Part I.
Substantialism and Relationalism: 2. Political worldviews in international
relations: the importance of ideologies and foreign policy traditions Mark
L. Haas and Henry R. Nau; 3. Relationality, post-Newtonian international
relations, and worldviews Milja Kurki; 4. The president as mascot:
relations all the way down Jairus Victor Grove; 5. Jewish questions and
Jewish worldviews Michael Barnett; Part II. Accountable Agents and
Epistemic Engines: 6. Weberian and relationalist worldviews: what is at
stake? Henry R. Nau; 7. Oceans, jungles, and gardens: world politics and
the planet Prasenjit Duara; Part III. Science and Religion: 8. Scientific
worldviews in world politics: rationalization and the cosmological
inheritance of the social sciences Bentley B. Allan; 9. Religious
worldviews in global politics Timothy A. Byrnes; Part IV. Conclusion: 10.
Of gardens, forests, and parks Peter J. Katzenstein; Index.