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Moral Spaces Rethinking Ethics and World Politics David Campbell and Michael J. Shapiro, editors |
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Considers the relationship between international politics and ethics. A resounding challenge to the entrenched thinking and political inertia of international relations, this collection of essays overturns some basic assumptions about the relationship between ethics and international affairs--and about the very nature of these terms. Rather than pursue the traditional search for overarching, supranational principles, the contributors focus on specific, historically situated encounters. The result is a sustained consideration of the relationship between space, subjectivity, and ethics. Moral Spaces takes a position "against" theory, ethics, and justice—a position opposing the orthodox renderings of these domains, with their ethical-political effects. The book proceeds from the suspicion that theorizing ethics tends to obscure the contingencies and complexities of the ethical and that striving for the rules and principles of justice generally produces injustice. Instead, the contributors seek to foster the ethical relation in world politics. They investigate the radical entanglement of moral discourses and "spatial imaginaries"—the moral spaces or bounded locations whose inhabitants benefit from ethical inclusion—and question the approach that leads to this entanglement. These essays stimulate new ways of thinking about what is "international," about states and their interests, about sovereignty and transborder humanisms, about refugees and immigration, about rescue missions and the death penalty, and about the limited but very solid metaphysical underpinnings of the "international" discourse. “Provocative collection. Those who read Moral Spaces will be rewarded with a sophisticated and spirited reconceptualization of the problems and possibilities of ‘international ethics.’” —Ethics and International Affairs “The book and its editors deserve praise for bringing together essays which radically and boldly question the accepted meanings of terms such as ‘international affairs,’ ‘international ethics,’ ‘sovereignty,’ and ‘refugee.’” —Journal of Peace Research "David Campbell and Michael Shapiro have put together a pleasingly troublesome collection of essays. They have thrown down the gauntlet to those who claim to represent the moral domain in International Relations." —International Affairs “This collection is an important correction of the simplifications that typify the liberal-communitarian debate.” —Canadian Literature Contributors: William E. Connolly, Michael Dillon, Bonnie Honig, Kate Manzo, Richard Maxwell, Patricia Molloy, Daniel Warner. David Campbell is professor of international politics at the University of Newcastle, England. His books include National Deconstruction (1998) and Writing Security, (1998). Michael J. Shapiro is professor of political science at the University of Hawaii. He is the author of Reading the Postmodern Polity (1998) and Violent Cartographies (1997). All of these books are available from the University of Minnesota Press. 256 pages | 5 7/8 x 9 | 1999 |
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$25.00 Paper