Time and world politics: Thinking the Present
Time and world politics: Thinking the Present
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时间与世界政治：思考当下
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2013
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Kimberly Hutchings
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这本书提供了第一个权威性的指导假设在当代世界政治理论的时间。它展示了国际或全球“现在”的主流理论如何受到基于西方政治思想的时间假设的影响，这些假设从根本上塑造了我们对当今世界政治的了解。在这样做的时候，它提出了问题的方式，社会科学家和规范理论家诊断“我们的”后冷战时代。本书的第一部分追溯了当代政治和国际理论中关于时间的假设的哲学根源。该书的第二部分考察了当代世界政治理论，包括自由主义和现实主义国际关系理论以及哈贝马斯、哈特和内格里、维里利奥和阿甘本的著作。在每一种情况下，它认为，关于政治时间的假设确保了西方经验的特定时间性与世界本身的政治时间性的认同，并把理论家置于不可持续的位置，掌握着世界历史方向的关键。在最后一章，本书借鉴了后殖民主义和女权主义思想，以及德里达和德勒兹著作中对政治时间的哲学解释，发展了一种新的“不合时宜”的思考世界政治时间的方式。这本书将是所有对当代国际和全球政治理论的哲学基础和批判可能性感兴趣的人的必读阅读。
This book offers the first authoritative guide to assumptions about time in theories of contemporary world politics. It demonstrates how predominant theories of the international or global ‘present’ are affected by temporal assumptions, grounded in western political thought, that fundamentally shape what we can and cannot know about world politics today. In so doing, it puts into question the ways in which social scientists and normative theorists diagnose ‘our’ post-Cold War times. The first part of the book traces the philosophical roots of assumptions about time in contemporary political and international theory. The second part of the book examines contemporary theories of world politics, including liberal and realist International Relations theories and the work of Habermas, Hardt and Negri, Virilio and Agamben. In each case, it is argued, assumptions about political time ensure the identification of the particular temporality of western experience with the political temporality of the world as such and put the theorist in the unsustainable position of holding the key to the direction of world history. In the final chapter, the book draws on postcolonial and feminist thinking, and the philosophical accounts of political time in the work of Derrida and Deleuze, to develop a new ‘untimely’ way of thinking about time in world politics. This book will be required reading for all those interested in the philosophical bases and critical possibilities of contemporary theories of international and global politics.