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Reason, Culture, Religion: The Metaphysics of World Politics

By Ralph Pettman

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2004
ISBN
1403965056, 9781403965059
LCC
JZ1249 .P48 2004
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
937 kB (959632 bytes)
Series
Culture and Religion in International Relations
Edition
1st
Pages
208\206
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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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