Critical theory and international relations : a reader / edited by Steven C. Roach.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: From Critical Theory to Critical IR Theory -- Part 1. Abstract Universalism and the Critique of Reason -- 1. The Roots of Critical Theory: German Idealism -- Part 2. Historical Materialism -- 2. Internationalism, Hegemony, and Orthodoxy -- 3. Psychological Repression and the Perils of Modernity -- Part 3. Critical Synthesis -- 4. The Critique of Instrumental Reason: The Reification of Society -- 5. State Capitalism: Its Limitations and Possibilities -- Part 4. Global Society -- 6. Normative Basis: Communicative Action and Recognition -- 7. Normative/Critical IR Theory: The Emancipatory Project and Moral Commitment -- 8. Global Political Economy: Social Forces and Dialectic -- Part 5. A New Critical Phase? Normative Critical Theory and its Critics -- 9. Postmodern Thought: Genealogy, Power/Knowledge, and Deconstruction -- 10. Postmodernism and Feminism in IR -- 11. Normative/Critical IR Theory and its Response.

"This reader provides students, scholars, and practitioners with a comprehensive compilation of essays, articles, and book selections which bring together the traditional and essential works of Critical Theory and Critical International Relations (IR) Theory. It features the writings of Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Weber, Pollock, Horkheimer, Adorno, Marcuse, Habermas, Honneth, Fraser, Cox, Linklater, Ashley and Walker, Sylvester, and Devetak. In addition to a general introduction, it also includes detailed descriptions of each chapter showing the major tensions of four periods of the extension of critical theory into critical IR theory. The principle aim of the reader, then, is to provide the scholar and student with a rich and integrative narrative that tells the story of how critical theory entered into international relations theory. In this way, it seeks to deepen the reader's historical and sociological understanding of critical IR theory and to show how the global realm offers a dynamic context; for further extending critical theory's emancipatory project. The last section includes texts on postmodernism and feminism, in order to address the issue of whether the discipline is in crisis, or is working toward a cohesive and reflexive framework. Steven C. Roach is Assistant Professor of Government and International Affairs at the University of South Florida. He is the author of The International Criminal Court, Ethics, and Global Justice: The Politics of Criminalizing Violence (2006) and Cultural Autonomy, Minority Rights and Globalization (2005), and his articles have appeared in numerous peer-reviewed international relations and human rights journals."--Publisher description.

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