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The mightie frame : epochal change and the modern world /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Onuf, Nicholas Greenwood (Author)
Corporate Author: UPSO (University Press Scholarship Online)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Constructivism (Philosophy)
International relations > Philosophy.
International relations > Social aspects.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • What can we know?
  • Modernity's mighty frame
  • Traditional societies
  • Transitional figures : Hugo Grotius, Thomas Hobbes, Samuel Pufendorf
  • Interlude : 'working models'
  • 'This quarter of the globe'
  • Transitional figures : Immanuel Kant, Adam Smith, James Madison
  • State-nations
  • Transitional figures : Edmund Husserl, Emile Durkheim, the Fabian Society
  • Interlude : growth rates
  • Epochal destruction
  • Transitional figures : J.L. Austin, Jay Forrester, Donna Haraway
  • Paradise lost?
  • Relative virtue
  • Epilogue : 'saving constructivism.'