Grand Narratives in Critical International Theory
In: Rethinking Political and International Theory Series
Cover -- Endrosements Page -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- 1 The Problem of Orientation in Critical International Theory -- Introduction -- Orientation, Grand Narratives, and Critical International Theory -- The Eurocentric Critique of World Politics -- The Possibility of a Historical-Sociological Approach to Grand Narratives -- 2 A Philosophical-Transcendental Grand Narrative -- Introduction -- A Theory of Moral and Social Evolution -- Universal Communication Community -- The Cosmopolitan Constitutionalisation of World Politics -- Orientation in History -- 3 The Materialist-Emergentist Conception of History -- Introduction -- Humans in Nature -- Objective Ethics -- A General Theory of Human Development -- Orientation and Emancipation -- 4 Class Struggles and Utopian Limitations -- Introduction -- The Critique of Capitalism -- The Interweaving of Multiple Forms of Class Struggle -- Utopianism and Social Monopolies -- 5 Towards a Reconstruction of Historical-Sociological Grand Narratives -- Introduction -- Process Sociology and Critical Theory -- Symbol Emancipation and the Triad of Controls -- On the Concept of Civilisation -- Civilising Processes as Grand Narrative -- 6 Critical Orientation in World Politics -- Introduction -- From the Triad to the Tetrad of Controls -- Class Struggles in Inter-Societal Relations -- Socialisation and Planned Interdependence -- Concluding Remarks -- Bibliography -- Index.