The Civil Condition in World Politics : : Beyond Tragedy and Utopianism / / ed. by Vassilios Paipais.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol UP/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2022
• MitwirkendeR: Brown, Chris,; Dingli, Sophia,; Hall, Ian,; Kennedy-Pipe, Caroline,; Lang, Anthony F.,; Morkevičius, Valerie,; O’Sullivan, Noël,; Paipais, Vassilios,; Schick, Kate,; Valk, John-Harmen,; Whatmore, Richard,; Williams, Michael C.,
• HerausgeberIn: Paipais, Vassilios,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Bristol University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Bristol Studies in International Theory
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (264 p.)

Bringing together an international team of contributors, this volume draws on international political theory and intellectual history to rethink the problem of a pluralistic world order. Inspired by the work of international political theorist Nicholas Rengger, the book focuses on three main areas of Rengger’s contribution to the political theory of international relations: his Augustine-inspired idea of an ‘Anti-Pelagian Imagination’; his Oakeshottian argument for a pluralist ‘conversation of mankind’; and his ruminations on war as the uncivil condition in world politics. Through a critical engagement with his work, the book illuminates the promises and limitations of civility as a sceptical, non-utopian, anti-perfectionist approach to theorizing world order that transcends both realist pessimism and liberal utopianism.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Rengger’s Anti-Pelagianism: International Political Theory as Civil Conversation -- Anti-Pelagianism and the Civil Condition in World Politics -- Revisiting Rengger’s Anti-Pelagianism -- Poetics and Politics: Rengger, Weber, and the Virtuosi of Religion -- ‘Keep Your Mind in Hell, and Despair Not’: Gillian Rose’s Anti-Pelagianism -- Challenging the Anti-Pelagian Imagination -- ‘A Dangerous Place to Be’? Rengger, the English School, and International Disorder -- Rengger’s War on Teleocracy -- Conservatism, Civility, and the Challenges of International Political Theory -- The Uncivil Condition in World Politics -- Rengger the Reluctant Rule Follower -- Rengger and the ‘Business of War’ -- Just War as Tradition in a Civil International Order -- Afterword -- Rengger, History, and the Future of International Relations -- Bibliography -- Index