(Polity, 2015), Terrorists, Anarchists and Republicans (Princeton, 2019), and History of Political Thought. A Very Short Introduction (Oxford, 2021). Michael C. Williams is Professor at the Graduate School of Public and International ...
Author: Paipais, Vassilios
Publisher: Policy Press
ISBN: 9781529224207
Category: Political Science
Page: 240
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Bringing together an international team of contributors, this volume draws on international political theory and intellectual history to rethink the problem of a pluralistic world order. Inspired by the work of international political theorist Nicholas Rengger, the book focuses on three main areas of Rengger’s contribution to the political theory of international relations: his Augustine-inspired idea of an ‘Anti-Pelagian Imagination’; his Oakeshottian argument for a pluralist ‘conversation of mankind’; and his ruminations on war as the uncivil condition in world politics. Through a critical engagement with his work, the book illuminates the promises and limitations of civility as a sceptical, non-utopian, anti-perfectionist approach to theorizing world order that transcends both realist pessimism and liberal utopianism.