000 02285nam a22002177a 4500
003 JGU
005 20230417144954.0
008 230417b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d
020 _a9783031225864
_qhbk.
040 _beng
_cJGU
041 _aeng
100 _aSchmid, Davide,
_91639015
_eauthor
245 _aThe poverty of critical theory in international relations /
_cDavide Schmid.
260 _aSwitzerland :
_bPalgrave Macmillan,
_c2023.
520 _a"This book addresses the ‘crisis of critique’ of Frankfurt School Critical Theory in International Relations and puts forward a proposal for how it can be overcome. It starts from the premise that the present conjuncture, marked by capitalist crisis and a fracturing international order, urgently calls for critical perspectives capable of clarifying the state of global affairs and the emancipatory struggles within it. Critical Theory in International Relations should be well placed to provide answers to this demand, yet it finds itself today in a state of decline. Its prevailing form – that of a universalist cosmopolitan project – reflects a narrow Eurocentric perspective and the concerns of a time now past, while the Frankfurt School tradition as a whole struggles to develop new modes of analysis and new political imaginaries that are appropriate to the current historical situation. The book diagnoses this situation of intellectual and political crisis and seeks to trace a way out. It does so by providing a comprehensive account of the development of Critical Theory in International Relations and the ways in which it has applied Frankfurt School thought to the study of international politics. It then makes a provocative case as to the exhaustion of the cosmopolitan and Habermasian paradigm of critique that has guided Frankfurt School research on international politics for the past thirty years. Finally, it puts forward a proposal for the revitalisation of Critical Theory in IR through a renewed emphasis on the critique of political economy and sketches a research agenda which can make the tradition relevant again to contemporary political questions."--
650 _aInternational relations
650 _aWorld politics
999 _c3053654
_d3053654