| Description |
x, 205 pages ; 20cm |
| Contents |
1. Introduction: The Problem of Globalisation Theory -- The General Problem -- 'International Relations' and Globalisation Theory -- 2. Scholte's Folly -- Introduction -- A Definitional Achievement -- When Was the Westphalian System? -- 3. Rob Walker: Philosophical Backstop? -- Introduction -- Ontological Assumptions -- Space and Modernity -- Why Space? -- The Problematic of the International -- 4. Giddens' Consequences of Modernity: Sociological Foundations? -- Introduction -- Making the Break -- Forward or Back? -- Confusion in the Ranks -- The Argument Regroups -- Hide and Seek with Space and Time -- 5. Conclusion: The Collapsing Temple of Globalisation Theory |
| Summary |
"Justin Rosenberg subjects the entire notion of 'globalisation theory' to a fundamental theoretical critique in this book. He argues that a fashionable preoccupation with 'spatiality' has instead generated deep intellectual confusions which stand in the way of a clear understanding of the modern world. And he shows how and why these confusions ultimately condemn the globalisation theorists themselves to a peculiar and quixotic stance: the more clearly they attempt to articulate their arguments, the more equivocal and evasive those arguments become, yielding at best the intellectual equivalent of an architectural folly." |
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"Rosenberg first traces this outcome in the field of international relations. He then turns to the work most widely assumed to have supplied a sociological foundation for globalisation theory, Anthony Giddens' The Consequences of Modernity, and commits it to a thorough, at times hilarious, critical interrogation. In a concluding chapter he draws out the results of this interrogation first for Giddens' own argument and then for the wider discourse of globalisation theory of which it is so emblematic."--BOOK JACKET |
| Analysis |
Politics & government |
| Notes |
Includes Index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 193-199 |
| Subject |
Scholte, Jan Aart. Consequences of modernity
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Giddens, Anthony.
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Workshop on Polymer Science Studied by Neutron Scattering, Tsukuba-shi, Japan), 1991
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Scholte, Jan Aart.
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Giddens, Anthony. Consequences of modernity
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Walker, R. B. J.
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Social sciences -- Philosophy.
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Globalization -- Philosophy.
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International relations -- Philosophy.
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Political science -- Philosophy.
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Globalization.
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International relations.
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| LC no. |
2002022931 |
| ISBN |
1859846114 |
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1859843972 paperback |
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