ATS1873 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Postmodernity, Metanarrative, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
5 Aug 2018
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"our ability to influence political affairs becoming increasingly elusive": (some) nation-states no longer able to uphold sovereignty & boundaries of justice & civility: a neoliberal world order run by a few powerful multilateral institutions & Mncs: or: positive opportunities opened by new communicative tools - better cross-cultural communication, articulating cosmopolitan notions of democracy. Postmodernism: a way of thinking & feeling; a mode of relating to contemporary reality. Realist perceptions of the international became accepted as "common sense: defining "common sense" - the ultimate act of political power, always a gap between representation & reality; representation - selective, subjective & highly political. Concern with the relationship between power and knowledge. Engagement with the role of states & related questions of boundaries, violence & identity. Critiques & legacy: opponents" fear that postmodern alternatives would induce an endless fall into a relativist abyss;
