Hutchings, Kimberly (2008) Time and world politics: thinking the present. Reappraising the political. Manchester University Press, Manchester, UK. ISBN 9780719073021
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This book offers the first authoritative guide to assumptions about time in theories of contemporary world politics. It demonstrates how predominant theories of the international or global ‘present’ are affected by temporal assumptions, grounded in western political thought, that fundamentally shape what we can and cannot know about world politics today. In so doing, it puts into question the ways in which social scientists and normative theorists diagnose ‘our’ post-Cold War times. The first part of the book traces the philosophical roots of assumptions about time in contemporary political and international theory. The second part of the book examines contemporary theories of world politics, including liberal and realist International Relations theories and the work of Habermas, Hardt and Negri, Virilio and Agamben. In each case, it is argued, assumptions about political time ensure the identification of the particular temporality of western experience with the political temporality of the world as such and put the theorist in the unsustainable position of holding the key to the direction of world history. In the final chapter, the book draws on postcolonial and feminist thinking, and the philosophical accounts of political time in the work of Derrida and Deleuze, to develop a new ‘untimely’ way of thinking about time in world politics. This book will be required reading for all those interested in the philosophical bases and critical possibilities of contemporary theories of international and global politics.
| Item Type: | Book |
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| Official URL: | http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk |
| Additional Information: | © 2008 Manchester University Press |
| Divisions: | International Relations |
| Subjects: | J Political Science > JA Political science (General) |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Nov 2008 13:21 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Sep 2023 21:45 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/21646 |
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