The Civil Condition in World Politics: Beyond Tragedy and Utopianism

Front Cover\nTitle page\nSeries\nThe Civil Condition in World Polotics: Beyond Tragedy and Utopianism\nCopyright information\nTable of contents\nNotes on Contributors\nAcknowledgments\n1 Introduction: Rengger’s Anti- Pelagianism: International Political Theory as Civil Conversation\n	Introduction\n	From political theory to international political theory\n	Rengger’s civil conversations\n	The anti- Pelagian imagination\n	Scepticism, civility, and world order\n	The enigma of Nicholas Rengger\n	Outline of the chapters\nPart I Anti-Pelagianism and the Civil Condition in World Politics\n	2 Revisiting Rengger’s Anti-Pelagianism\n		Introduction\n		The Pelagian and anti-Pelagian imagination in political and international theory\n		Sources of Rengger’s non-realist anti-Pelagianism\n		Rengger’s Oakeshottian anti-Pelagianism and Fred Dallmayr’s reading of Oakeshott\n		Limitations of Oakeshott’s (and Rengger’s) thought\n		Towards a more viable anti-Pelagian position\n		Conclusion\n	3 Poetics and Politics: Rengger, Weber, and the Virtuosi of Religion\n		Introduction\n		Weber and Rengger: rationalization\n		Weber and Rengger: brotherliness\n		Rengger: theory and practice\n		Weber supplemented: an alternative\n		Rengger revisited\n	4 ‘Keep Your Mind in Hell, and Despair Not’: Gillian Rose’s Anti-Pelagianism\n		Modern anti-Pelagianism\n		Rose’s anti-Pelagianism\n			Utopia and tragedy as euporia\n			Towards an aporetic anti-Pelagianism\n			Possibilities/provocation\n		Conclusion\nPART II Challenging the Anti-Pelagian Imagination\n	5 ‘A Dangerous Place to Be’?1 Rengger, the English School, and International Disorder\n		Introduction\n		Serpents and doves\n		Approaching the classics\n		The Rengger project\n		Order and history\n		Progress and Pelagius\n		Conclusion\n	6 Rengger’s War on Teleocracy\n		Introduction\n		In the beginning…\n		The war on teleocracy\n		Progress in the world and justice in war\n		Conclusion\n	7 Conservatism, Civility, and the Challenges of International Political Theory\n		Part one: liberalism, realism, and the New Right\n		Rationalism and globalization\n		Liberal universalism and human rights\n		Part two: an anti-Pelagian response?\n		A critique of the limits of liberalism\nPART III The Uncivil Condition in World Politics\n	8 Rengger the Reluctant Rule Follower\n		Introduction\n		The problem of rules\n		Just war according to Rengger\n		Judgements, contexts and rules\n		The context(s) of the cyber realm\n		Conclusion\n	9 Rengger and the ‘Business of War’\n		Introduction\n		Avoiding the ugly face of war?\n		9/11: Not apocalypse now?42\n		Conclusion\n	10 Just War as Tradition in a Civil International Order\n		Introduction\n		What is just war thinking?\n		Just war thinking in practice\n		What challenges face the just war tradition today?\n		How should just war thinking respond to such challenges?\nPART IV Afterword\n	11 Rengger, History, and the Future of International Relations\n		The relevance of history\n		Engaging with anti-Pelagianism\n		The importance of the history of political thought\n		Rengger and the future of international relations\nBibliography\nIndex\nBack Cover