The Return of the Theorists [electronic resource] : Dialogues with Great Thinkers in International Relations /
Lebow, Richard Ned.editor.
Schouten, Peer.editor.
Suganami, Hidemi.editor.
Contemporary International Relations is as much a conversation between the living and the dead as it is among the living. Its debates are thoroughly rooted in and shaped by the thought of many bygone minds, both ancient and modern. With this in mind, The Return of the Theorists presents forty imagined dialogues with foundational theorists. They run the gamut from Homer and Confucius to Hedley Bull and Jean Bethke Elshtain, and span almost three millennia of human history, comprising representatives of a variety of cultures. The interviewers consist of more than forty international relations scholars and political theorists. They too cut across cultures, continents and almost three generations, and each is an expert on the work of the thinker invited. The Return of the Theorists will be of interest to anyone who has tried to enter the mind of bygone thinkers in political thought and International Relations.
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Contributors; Introduction; 1 Homer (c.850 BCE); 2 Conversations with Confucius (551-479 BCE); 3 Lao Zi (6th-5th century BCE?): Dao of International Politics; 4 Thucydides (c.460-c.395 BCE): A Theorist for All Time; 5 Discussing War with Plato (429-347 BCE); 6 Aristotle (384-322 BCE): The Philosopher and the Discipline; 7 Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527): Two Realisms; 8 Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679); 9 An Interview with John Locke (1632-1704); 10 Two Days in the Life of 'Dave' Hume (1711-1776)
11 The Dangers of Dependence: Sultan's Conversation with His Master Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)12 Immanuel Kant (1724-1804): A Little Kantian 'Schwaermerei'; 13 A Fine Bromance: Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) and Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527); 14 G.W.F. Hegel (1770-1831) and International Relations; 15 A Brief Encounter with Major-General Carl von Clausewitz (1780-1831); 16 A Conversation with Karl Marx (1818-1883) on Why There Is No Socialism in the United States; 17 Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900); 18 Émile Durkheim (1858-1917)
19 Theory Talk #-100: John Dewey (1859-1952) on the Horror of Making His Poetry Public20 Max Weber (1864-1920); 21 The Republic of Norman Angell (1872-1967): A Dialogue (with Apologies to Plato); 22 Functionalism in Uncommon Places: Electrifying the Hades with David Mitrany (1888-1975); 23 Dialogue with Arnold Wolfers (1892-1968); 24 E.H. Carr (1892-1982); 25 Modernity, Technology and Global Security: A Conversation with Lewis Mumford (1895-1990); 26 More Fragments of an Intellectual Biography: Hans J. Morgenthau (1904-1980)
27 The Return of the spectateur engagé: Interview with Raymond Aron (1905-1983)28 A Conversation with Hannah Arendt (1906-1975); 29 Interview with John Herz (1908-2005); 30 Interview with Charles P. Kindleberger (1910-2003), the Reputed Progenitor of Hegemonic Stability Theory; 31 Karl W. Deutsch (1912-1992) Interviewed; 32 International Theory beyond the Three Traditions: A Student's Conversation with Martin Wight (1913-1972); 33 John Rawls (1921-2002); 34 The Spirit of Susan Strange (1923-1998); 35 Questioning Kenneth N. Waltz (1924-2013); 36 Frantz Fanon (1925-1961)
37 Deep Hanging Out with Michel Foucault (1926-1984)38 Interviewing Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) about Pierre Bourdieu and International Relations; 39 Hedley Bull (1932-1985); 40 Jean Bethke Elshtain (1941-2013): A Women's Refuge, Baghdad, Summer 2015; Conclusions; Index
Includes index.
Contemporary International Relations is as much a conversation between the living and the dead as it is among the living. Its debates are thoroughly rooted in and shaped by the thought of many bygone minds, both ancient and modern. With this in mind, The Return of the Theorists presents forty imagined dialogues with foundational theorists. They run the gamut from Homer and Confucius to Hedley Bull and Jean Bethke Elshtain, and span almost three millennia of human history, comprising representatives of a variety of cultures. The interviewers consist of more than forty international relations scholars and political theorists. They too cut across cultures, continents and almost three generations, and each is an expert on the work of the thinker invited. The Return of the Theorists will be of interest to anyone who has tried to enter the mind of bygone thinkers in political thought and International Relations.
International relations.
Political theory.
Political science.
Philosophy.
World politics.
International Relations.
Political Theory.
Political Science.
Philosophy, general.
Political History.