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Uncertainty and Its Discontents - Worldviews in World Politics (Paperback)
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Uncertainty and Its Discontents - Worldviews in World Politics (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Studies in International Relations
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This volume provides the first major study of worldviews in
international relations. Worldviews are the unexamined,
pre-theoretical foundations of the approaches with which we
understand and navigate the world. Advances in twentieth century
physics and cosmology and other intellectual developments
questioning anthropocentrism have fostered the articulation of
alternative worldviews that rival conventional Newtonian humanism
and its assumption that the world is constituted by controllable
risks. This matters for coming to terms with the 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.
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