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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462925503321

Autore

Prichard Alex

Titolo

Justice, order and anarchy : the international political theory of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon / / Alex Prichard

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

0-203-38617-5

1-136-73266-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (238 p.)

Collana

The New International Relations

Disciplina

335/.83

Soggetti

Anarchism

Mutualism

Social justice

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

Cover; Title Information; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Series editor'sforeword; Acknowledgements; 1 Retrieving Proudhon; 2 Anarchy and Contemporary IRtheory; 3 National unity and the nineteenth-centuryEuropean equilibrium; 4 War, providence and the international order in the thought of Rousseau, Kant andComte; 5 From providence to immanence: force and justice in Proudhon's socialontology; 6 The historical sociology of war: order and justice in Proudhon's La Guerre et laPaix; 7 Anarchy, mutualism and the federativeprinciple

8 Anarchy is what we make of it: rethinking justice, order and anarchytodayNotes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book provides a contextual account of the first anarchist theory of war and peace, and sheds new light on our contemporary understandings of anarchy in International Relations. Although anarchy is arguably the core concept of the discipline of international relations, scholarship has largely ignored the insights of the first anarchist, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon. Proudhon's anarchism was a critique of the projects of national unification, universal dominion, republican statism and the providentialism at the heart of enlightenment social theory.



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