TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pettman,Ralph
TI  - Reason, culture, religion: the metaphysics of world politics 
T2  - Culture and religion in international relations
SN  - 1403965056
AV  - JZ1249 .P48 2004
U1  - 327.101 22
PY  - 2004///
CY  - New York
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - International relations and culture
KW  - International relations
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - World politics
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-181) and index; Introduction: The Metaphysics of World Affairs --; Pt. I; Modernity --; 1; World Affairs - The Modernist Project --; 2; World Affairs - The Movie --; Pt. II; Community --; 3; The World Politics of World Heritage --; 4; The World Politics of World Heritage - Japan --; Pt. III; Spirituality --; 5; Taoist Strategics --; 6; Buddhist Economics --; 7; Islamic Civics --; 8; Confucian Marxism --; 9; Hindu Constructivism --; 10; Pagan feminism --; 11; Animist Environmentalism --; Conclusion: A World Affairs for All the World
N2  - "In Reason, Culture, Religion, Ralph Pettman calls for wider recognition of, and greater commitment to, the "new" international relations, a discipline much more comprehensive and cosmopolitan than the "old." He first documents the way modernist analysts describe and explain world politics. Pettman then explores two ways in which the constraints on modernist thinking are transgressed: communalist ("pre-modernist") alternatives to the modernist project and sacralist ("anti-modernist") alternatives to the Christian tradition of which the modernist project is a part."--BOOK JACKET
ER  -