The Anti-Pelagian Imagination in Political Theory and International Relations: Dealing in Darkness
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: dealing in darkness? Varieties of modern anti-Pelagianism -- 2 Progress: Kant, Mendelssohn and the very idea -- 3 Bull: a double vision? -- 4 Remember the Aeneid? (And beware Greek gifts) -- 5 Human rights: emancipation or incarceration -- 6 Dystopic liberalism and the international order: realism tamed or liberalism betrayed? -- 7 Progress with Price? -- 8 Connolly: Nietzsche or Augustine? -- 9 Gray: the end(s) of progress? -- 10 Strauss: the impossibility of justice -- 11 Elshtain 1: anti-Pelagian or not? -- 12 Elshtain 2: violence and the two sovereigns -- 13 Post-secularism: metaphysical not political? -- 14 Epilogue: tragedy or scepticism? -- Index