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Oxford Critical International Theory An Intellectual History 2018 Edition by Richard Devetak
Whether inspired by the Frankfurt School or Antonio Gramsci, the impact of critical theory on the study of international relations has grown considerably since its advent in the early 1980s. This book offers the first intellectual history of critical international theory. _x000D__x000D_Richard Devetak approaches this history by locating its emergence in the rising prestige of theory and the theoretical persona. As theory's prestige rose in the discipline of international relations it opened the way for normative and metatheoretical reconsiderations of the discipline and the world. The book traces the lines of intellectual inheritance through the Frankfurt School to the Enlightenment, German idealism, and historical materialism, to reveal the construction of a particular kind_x000D_of intellectual persona: the critical international theorist who has mastered reflexive, dialectical forms of social philosophy. . In addition to the extensive treatment of critical theory's reception and development in international relations, the book recovers a rival form of theory that originates_x000D_outside the usual inheritance of critical international theory in Renaissance humanism and the civil Enlightenment. This historical mode of theorising was intended to combat metaphysical encroachments on politics and international relations and to prioritise the mundane demands of civil government over the self-reflective demands of dialectical social philosophies. By proposing contextualist intellectual history as a form of critical theory, Critical International Theory defends a_x000D_mode of historical critique that refuses the normative temptations to project present conceptions onto an alien past, and to abstract from the offices of civil government._x000D_ Table of Contents :- _x000D_
Introduction_x000D_
1: International Relations before Critical Theory: Methodenstreit and the Rise of Theory_x000D_
2: Revisiting the Sources of Critical International Theory_x000D_
3: International Relations meets Critical Theory_x000D_
4: Critique and Crisis: Critical International Theory Today_x000D_
5: Critical International Theory in Historical Mode_x000D_
Conclusion: Reorienting Critical International Theory_x000D_