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The Concept of Truth in International Relations Theory : Critical Thought Beyond Post-Positivism.

By: Material type: TextPublisher: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (247 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781137550330
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 327.101
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Contents:
Intro -- The Concept of Truth in International Relations Theory -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1 Introduction: A Political Question -- 1 Modern Anxieties -- 2 The Political Significance of Truth -- 3 Why Truth Now? -- 4 The Argument -- Notes -- Part I Post-Positivism and Truth -- 2 The Parameters of Post-Positivism -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The 'Breach in the Dyke' -- Anti-Objectivism -- The Critical Epistemological Problematic -- Richard Ashley -- Robert Cox -- Andrew Linklater -- 3 Division and Consensus in Post-Positivism -- Veriphilia and Veriphobia -- Intersubjective Truth -- 4 Conclusion -- Notes -- 3 Truth, Violence, and Difference -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Veriphilia and Violence -- 3 Différance, Structures, and Knowledge -- 4 The Grounds of Deconstruction -- 5 The Limits of Veriphobia -- 6 Conclusion -- Notes -- 4 Truth and Communication -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Transformation of Political Community -- 3 Habermas's Theory of Truth -- 4 Truth and Critical IR Theory -- 5 Habermas's Truth, Linklater's Transformation -- 6 Truth and Objectivity -- 7 Habermas on Objectivity -- 8 Conclusion -- Notes -- Part II Truth and Objectivity -- 5 Critical Realism and Truth-Based Critique -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Realist Critique -- Scientific Realism -- Scientific Realism and the Critical Epistemological Problematic -- 3 Realism, Truth, and Politics -- Wendt's Scientific Realism -- Bhaskar's Truth-Based Critique -- Patomäki and the Normativity of Truth -- 4 Conclusion -- Notes -- 6 Adorno, Truth, and International Relations -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Subject and Object in Critical Theory -- Verum-Factum -- Dialectic of Enlightenment -- Residual Truth -- Adorno's Truth -- Objective -- Unintentional -- Emphatic -- 3 Adorno and IR -- Recoil and Beyond -- Difference and Communication -- 4 Conclusion -- Notes -- 7 Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Intro -- The Concept of Truth in International Relations Theory -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1 Introduction: A Political Question -- 1 Modern Anxieties -- 2 The Political Significance of Truth -- 3 Why Truth Now? -- 4 The Argument -- Notes -- Part I Post-Positivism and Truth -- 2 The Parameters of Post-Positivism -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The 'Breach in the Dyke' -- Anti-Objectivism -- The Critical Epistemological Problematic -- Richard Ashley -- Robert Cox -- Andrew Linklater -- 3 Division and Consensus in Post-Positivism -- Veriphilia and Veriphobia -- Intersubjective Truth -- 4 Conclusion -- Notes -- 3 Truth, Violence, and Difference -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Veriphilia and Violence -- 3 Différance, Structures, and Knowledge -- 4 The Grounds of Deconstruction -- 5 The Limits of Veriphobia -- 6 Conclusion -- Notes -- 4 Truth and Communication -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Transformation of Political Community -- 3 Habermas's Theory of Truth -- 4 Truth and Critical IR Theory -- 5 Habermas's Truth, Linklater's Transformation -- 6 Truth and Objectivity -- 7 Habermas on Objectivity -- 8 Conclusion -- Notes -- Part II Truth and Objectivity -- 5 Critical Realism and Truth-Based Critique -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Realist Critique -- Scientific Realism -- Scientific Realism and the Critical Epistemological Problematic -- 3 Realism, Truth, and Politics -- Wendt's Scientific Realism -- Bhaskar's Truth-Based Critique -- Patomäki and the Normativity of Truth -- 4 Conclusion -- Notes -- 6 Adorno, Truth, and International Relations -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Subject and Object in Critical Theory -- Verum-Factum -- Dialectic of Enlightenment -- Residual Truth -- Adorno's Truth -- Objective -- Unintentional -- Emphatic -- 3 Adorno and IR -- Recoil and Beyond -- Difference and Communication -- 4 Conclusion -- Notes -- 7 Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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