The anti-Pelagian imagination in political theory and international relations : dealing in darkness / Nicholas Rengger.
This volume draws together some of the key works of Nicholas Rengger, focusing on the theme of the 'anti-Pelagian imagination' in political theory and international relations. Rengger frames the collection with a detailed introduction that sketches out this 'imagination', its ori...
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
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2017.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. dealing in darkness? varieties of modern anti-pelagianism
- Progress: Kant, Mendelsohn and the very idea
- Bull: a double vision?
- Remember the Aeneid: (and beware Greek gifts)
- Human rights: emancipation or incarceration?
- Dystopic liberalism: realism tamed or liberalism betrayed?
- Progress with price?
- Connolly: ambiguous pluralism
- Gray: the end(s) of progress?
- Strauss: the impossibility of justice
- Elshtain 1: anti-pelagian or not?
- Elshtain 2: violence and the two sovereigns
- Post-secularism: metaphysical not political?
- Epilogue: tragedy or scepticism.