UID:
almafu_9961264297102883
Format:
1 online resource (168 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
3-8394-6527-3
Series Statement:
Edition Politik ; 143
Content:
How can we understand long-term change in world politics better? Based on readings of thinkers as diverse as Habermas, Foucault and Luhmann, the contributors to this volume propose a framework for understanding such change in terms of social evolution. They show that processes of social learning and unlearning are key to understanding the long-term historical evolution of complex societies, and propose to approach these with the core concepts of autonomization, hierarchical complexity, and co-evolution. Four case studies illustrate this social evolutionary perspective to the study of world politics, examining the evolution of forms of organizing political authority, of conflicts, of diplomacy, of law as boundary condition.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Acknowledgements --
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1 Introduction: ‘Deep history’ for understanding world politics --
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2 The coevolution of society and evolutionary theory through four Axial Ages --
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3 Contemporary social evolution and social evolutionary theories --
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4 Evolutionary trajectories in world politics --
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5 Social evolution and knowing world politics --
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References
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In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3-8376-6527-5
Language:
English
Subjects:
Political Science
DOI:
10.1515/9783839465271
