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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455289803321

Autore

Pin-Fat Véronique <1965->

Titolo

Universality, ethics, and international relations [[electronic resource] ] : a grammatical reading / / Véronique Pin-Fat

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2009

ISBN

1-135-28247-1

1-282-31512-9

9786612315121

0-203-86779-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (168 p.)

Collana

Interventions

Disciplina

172/.4

Soggetti

International relations - Moral and ethical aspects

Ethics

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Permissions; Introduction; 1 Reading grammatically: Reading, representation and the limits of language; 2 Universality as conjunctive solution: Ethics 'and' International Relations; 3 Divine universality: Morgenthau, alchemy and the national interest; 4 Ideal universality: Beitz, reason and the ghost of Houdini; 5 Binary universality: Walzer, thinning the thick and fattening up the thin; 6 In defence of universality: (Im)possible universalism; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Universality Ethics and International Relations introduces students to the key debates about ethics in international relations theory. This book explores the reasons why grappling with universality and ethics seems to be a profound endeavour and where we end up when we do. By offering a new way of thinking about ethics in International Relations, Pin-Fat shows that there are several varieties of universality which are offered as the answer to ethics in global politics; the divine universality of Hans Morgenthau, the ideal universality of Charles R. Beitz and the binary unive