Agents, Structures and International Relations: Politics as OntologyCambridge University Press, 2006年10月12日 - 340 頁 The agent-structure problem is a much discussed issue in the field of international relations. In his comprehensive 2006 analysis of this problem, Colin Wight deconstructs the accounts of structure and agency embedded within differing IR theories and, on the basis of this analysis, explores the implications of ontology - the metaphysical study of existence and reality. Wight argues that there are many gaps in IR theory that can only be understood by focusing on the ontological differences that construct the theoretical landscape. By integrating the treatment of the agent-structure problem in IR theory with that in social theory, Wight makes a positive contribution to the problem as an issue of concern to the wider human sciences. At the most fundamental level politics is concerned with competing visions of how the world is and how it should be, thus politics is ontology. |
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... structuralist . Although there is something to this representation , and I shall employ it , it is important to realise that neither Weber nor Durkheim represents a naive version . That said , within the works of these two sociological ...
... structuralist . Although there is something to this representation , and I shall employ it , it is important to realise that neither Weber nor Durkheim represents a naive version . That said , within the works of these two sociological ...
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... structuralist theories , agents are really structural reflections and can be completely ignored . Ashley goes so far as to suggest that a truly structuralist perspec- tive sees the structural whole as having an independent existence ...
... structuralist theories , agents are really structural reflections and can be completely ignored . Ashley goes so far as to suggest that a truly structuralist perspec- tive sees the structural whole as having an independent existence ...
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... structuralism ; Durkheim was a realist about social wholes . This account of structure plays a major role in the structural realism developed by Waltz , although Waltz is a methodological structuralist but not an ontological structuralist ...
... structuralism ; Durkheim was a realist about social wholes . This account of structure plays a major role in the structural realism developed by Waltz , although Waltz is a methodological structuralist but not an ontological structuralist ...
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