Nicholas Rengger

The Anti-Pelagian Imagination in Political Theory and International Relations (eBook, ePUB)

Dealing in Darkness

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This work seeks to draw together some of the key work of the scholar Nicholas Rengger, focusing on the theme of the 'anti-pelagian imagination' in poltiical theory and international relations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134489046
• Artikelnr.: 48175208

Autorenporträt

Nicholas Rengger is Professor of Political Theory and International Relations at St Andrews and a member of the Academia Europaea. He has held visiting appointments at Oxford, LSE and the University of Southern California and from 2011-14 was a Global Ethics Fellow at the Carnegie Council for Ethics and International Affairs, New York.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction. Dealing in Darkness? Varieties of Modern
Anti-Pelagianism
2. Progress: Kant, Mendelsohn and the Very Idea
3. Bull: A Double Vision?
4. Remember the Aeneid: (And Beware Greek Gifts
5. Human Rights: Emancipation or Incarceration?
6. Dystopic Liberalism: Realism Tamed or Liberalism Betrayed?
7. Progress With Price?
8. Connolly: Ambiguous Pluralism
9. Gray: The End(s) of Progress?
10. Strauss: The impossibility of justice
11. Elshtain 1: Anti-Pelagian or not?
12. Elshtain 2: Violence and the Two Sovereigns
13. Post-Secularism: Metaphysical not Political?
14. Epilogue: Tragedy or Scepticism