Critical international theory has the task of providing orientation to human beings in better understanding their conditions of existence, how those conditions came to assume their contemporary characteristics, and what immanent potential they might hold for emancipatory transformation.
Critical international theory has the task of providing orientation to human beings in better understanding their conditions of existence, how those conditions came to assume their contemporary characteristics, and what immanent potential they might hold for emancipatory transformation.
André Saramago is Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra and Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra. His research focuses on the intersection of critical international theory, historical sociology, and environmental politics. He is the editor of Non-Human Nature in World Politics: Theory and Practice (with Joana Castro Pereira, 2020), and his research has been published in journals such as Historical Social Research, European Journal of International Relations, and International Relations.
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Introduction 1. The problem of orientation in critical international theory Orientation, grand narratives, and critical international theory The Eurocentric critique of world politics The possibility of a historical-sociological approach to grand narratives 2. A philosophical-transcendental grand narrative A theory of moral and social evolution Universal communication community The cosmopolitan constitutionalization of world politics Orientation in history 3. The materialist-emergentist conception of history Humans in nature Objective ethics A general theory of human development Orientation and emancipation 4. Class struggles and utopian limitations The critique of capitalism The interweaving of multiple forms of class struggle Utopianism and social monopolies 5. Towards a reconstruction of historical-sociological grand narratives Process sociology and critical theory Symbol emancipation and the triad of controls On the concept of civilisation Civilising processes as grand narrative 6. Critical orientation in world politics From the triad to the tetrad of controls Class struggles in inter-societal relations Socialisation and planned interdependence Concluding remarks Bibliography
Introduction 1. The problem of orientation in critical international theory Orientation, grand narratives, and critical international theory The Eurocentric critique of world politics The possibility of a historical-sociological approach to grand narratives 2. A philosophical-transcendental grand narrative A theory of moral and social evolution Universal communication community The cosmopolitan constitutionalization of world politics Orientation in history 3. The materialist-emergentist conception of history Humans in nature Objective ethics A general theory of human development Orientation and emancipation 4. Class struggles and utopian limitations The critique of capitalism The interweaving of multiple forms of class struggle Utopianism and social monopolies 5. Towards a reconstruction of historical-sociological grand narratives Process sociology and critical theory Symbol emancipation and the triad of controls On the concept of civilisation Civilising processes as grand narrative 6. Critical orientation in world politics From the triad to the tetrad of controls Class struggles in inter-societal relations Socialisation and planned interdependence Concluding remarks Bibliography
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