Burchill, Scott, Linklater, A., Devetak, R., Paterson, M., Donnelly, J., Reus-Smit, C. and True, J. 2005, Theories of international relations, 3rd ed.. Edited by Burchill, Scott, Palgrave Macmillan, New York, N.Y..
This collection of essays demonstrates the continuing importance of the work of Michael Polanyi for the understanding, not only of the great events of the 20th century, but also of the problems that face us in the 21st century. Polanyi moved liberalism away from a negative, sceptical and rationalist basis towards an acceptance of trust, tradition and faith in transcendent values. His conception of the free society is not one merely of doing as one pleases nor vacuously 'open', but one of individual and communal self-dedication to those values and ideals.These essays, authored by a distinguished international and interdisciplinary panel of invited contributors, examine Polanyi's specific insights in the theory of knowledge, the nature and source of social order and the philosophy of economics and science and draw relevant comparisons between Polanyi and related thinkers such as Popper, Hayek and Mises. This book shows the sources of Polanyi's ideas and his distinctive contribution to philosophy generally, to social and political thought and to economics.
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Contents: 1. Introduction / Scott Burchill and Andrew Linklater -- 2. Realism / Jack Donnelly -- 3. Liberalism / Scott Burchill -- 4. The English school / Andrew Linklater -- 5. Marxism / Andrew Linklater -- 6. Critical theory / Richard Devetak -- 7. Postmodernism / Richard Devetak -- 8. Constructivism / Christian Reus-Smit -- 9. Feminism / Jacqui True -- 10. Green politics / Matthew Paterson. Also available online via the World Wide Web, by subscription to EBL (Ebook Library).
ISBN
1403948658 9781403948656
Language
eng
Field of Research
160607 International Relations
Socio Economic Objective
970116 Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society
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