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 o...

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