Uncertainty and Its Discontents: Worldviews in World Politics

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Cambridge University Press

Publication date:

29 June 2022

07 July 2022

ISBN:

9781009070997

9781316512661

9781009068970

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009070997

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(229 x 152 mm)

Weight & Pages:

0.71kg, 394 Pages

Dimensions:

(229 x 152 mm)

Weight & Pages:

0.565kg, 394 Pages

Series:: Cambridge Studies in International Relations
Subjects:: Philosophy of Social Science, Politics and International Relations, International Relations and International Organisations, Philosophy

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Worldviews are the unexamined, pre-theoretical foundations of the approaches with which we understand and navigate the world, and this volume provides the first major study of worldviews in international relations. Advances in twentieth century physics and cosmology questioning anthropocentrism have fostered the articulation of alternative worldviews, rivalling conventional Newtonian humanism and its assumption that the world is constituted by controllable risks. This matters for accepting uncertainties that are an indelible part of many spheres of life including public health, the environment, finance, security and politics – uncertainties that are concealed by the conventional presumption that the world is governed only by risk. The confluence of risk and uncertainty requires an awareness of alternative worldviews, alerts us to possible intersections between humanist Newtonianism and hyper-humanist Post-Newtonianism, and reminds us of the relevance of science, religion and moral values in world politics. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

‘As a most enlightening study on worldviews in world politics, this book explores the post-Newtonian multiverse full of uncertainties, potentialities and possibilities, challenging IR students to open up the Newtonian universe of the discipline where the rational belief in determinacy, control and causality dominates.'

Yaqing Qin - Shandong University and China Foreign Affairs University

‘Uncertainty and Its Discontents: Worldviews in World Politics is the best book on worldviews since Max Weber's Economy and Society. In it, Katzenstein and collaborators explore the argument that the reason why IR scholars have so much difficulty integrating uncertainty into their scientific theories is their adherence to a mechanistic Newtonian scientific worldview, which natural scientists moved away from during the last century and instead adopted a post-Newtonian quantum/relationist scientific worldview. Although Katzenstein finally settled for a middle ground between both worldviews, and not all his collaborators agree that IR should make a sweeping turn in scientific worldviews, one day, perhaps soon, the book may be recognized as having played a role in starting a shift in how IR scholars do science. It should be read, therefore, not only by sympathizers to Katzenstein's views but particularly by scholars who still live in a mechanistic and predictable world of risk.'

Emanuel Adler - University of Toronto

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Uncertainty and Its Discontents
pp i-i

Cambridge Studies in International Relations - Series page
pp ii-ii

Uncertainty and Its Discontents - Title page
pp iii-iii

Copyright page
pp iv-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Figures
pp vii-vii

Contributors
pp viii-viii

Preface
pp ix-xvi

1 - Worldviews in World Politics
pp 1-70

Part I - Substantialism and Relationalism
pp 71-176

2 - Political Worldviews in International Relations
pp 73-96

3 - Relationality, Post-Newtonian International Relations, and Worldviews
pp 97-123

4 - The President as Mascot
pp 124-145

5 - Jewish Questions and Jewish Worldviews
pp 146-176

Part II - Accountable Agents and Epistemic Engines
pp 177-226

6 - Weberian and Relationalist Worldviews: What Is at Stake?
pp 179-202

7 - Oceans, Jungles, and Gardens
pp 203-226

Part III - Science and Religion
pp 227-276

8 - Scientific Worldviews in World Politics
pp 229-254

9 - Religious Worldviews in Global Politics
pp 255-276

Part IV - Conclusion
pp 277-352

10 - Of Gardens, Forests, and Parks
pp 279-352

Index
pp 353-364

Cambridge Studies in International Relations - Series page
pp 365-376

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