Ralph Pettman

Reason, Culture, Religion: The Metaphysics of World Politics (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

In Reason, Culture, Religion, Ralph Pettman calls for wider recognition of, and greater commitment to, the 'new' international relations, a discipline much more comprehensive and cosmopolitan than the 'old'. He first documents the way modernist analysts describe and explain world politics. Pettman then explores two ways in which the constraints on modernist thinking are transgressed: communalist ('pre-modernist') alternatives to the modernist project and sacralist ('anti-modernist') alternatives to the Christian tradition of which the modernist project is a part.

The first part of the book provides a systematic overview of the study of world politics, first in analytic form, and then in the form of a film script. The second part of the book highlights the modernist construction of this study by providing a detailed account of the world politics of world heritage. The third part of the book locates modernist world politics in its sacral context by discussing Taoist strategics, Buddhist economics, Islamic civics, Confucian Marxism, Hindu constructivism, Pagan feminism, and Animist environmentalism. It concludes by asking what a world affairs worthy of the name would be.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Society for Philosophy & Culture
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781301833597
• Artikelnr.: 48382691

Autorenporträt

Ralph Pettman was educated at the University of Adelaide and the London School of Economics and Political Science. He has taught at the Australian National University, Princeton University, Tokyo University and the University of Sydney and has held research appointments at the Australian National University, Cambridge University (UK), the Frankfurt Institute for Peace Research, and the New School for Social Research (NY). He has also worked for the Australian Human Rights Commission, the Australian Foreign Aid Bureau, and the Australian Broadcasting Commission.

He is the founder of the first electronic journal on world affairs in the world: AntePodium; co-editor of a monograph series on constructivism for M.E.Sharpe, Inc.; a member of the editorial board of advisers of Global Change, Peace and Security; a member of the international advisory board of the European Journal of International Relations; and a member of the advisory boards of International Politics and Religion; Millennium: Journal of International Studies; and the International Advisory Council of the Toda Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research.