Stefano Guzzini
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780197265529
- eISBN:
- 9780191760334
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197265529.003.0014
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics
This chapter shows that current IR (International Relations) theorizing finds liberal order a difficult topic. It confirms the concern voiced at the beginning of the volume that the IR academy in its ...
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This chapter shows that current IR (International Relations) theorizing finds liberal order a difficult topic. It confirms the concern voiced at the beginning of the volume that the IR academy in its use of liberalism as a label for theorizing the international has at once endowed liberal internationalism with more idealism than it can rightfully claim whilst at the same time has shorn liberalism of its normative and value-based foundations. It suggests that, paradoxically, when going back to ‘liberal basics’, some versions of realism are in fact based upon a specific vision of politics, which gives rise to liberal order. Liberal orders are not, and cannot be based on an ahistorical ‘view from nowhere’, but have to face an ever-changing historical setting. As result the philosophy cannot provide a final foundation, but nor can liberals — or for that matter realists — do without it.Less
This chapter shows that current IR (International Relations) theorizing finds liberal order a difficult topic. It confirms the concern voiced at the beginning of the volume that the IR academy in its use of liberalism as a label for theorizing the international has at once endowed liberal internationalism with more idealism than it can rightfully claim whilst at the same time has shorn liberalism of its normative and value-based foundations. It suggests that, paradoxically, when going back to ‘liberal basics’, some versions of realism are in fact based upon a specific vision of politics, which gives rise to liberal order. Liberal orders are not, and cannot be based on an ahistorical ‘view from nowhere’, but have to face an ever-changing historical setting. As result the philosophy cannot provide a final foundation, but nor can liberals — or for that matter realists — do without it.
Karl Schoonover
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816675548
- eISBN:
- 9781452947563
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816675548.003.0005
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This chapter explores how the second generation of neorealism used citation as a means to critique the politics of vision proposed by the films discussed in the previous chapters. The ...
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This chapter explores how the second generation of neorealism used citation as a means to critique the politics of vision proposed by the films discussed in the previous chapters. The second-generation films reference neorealism by narrating the daily lives of social and economic outcasts, and by focusing on petty theft, prostitution, con games, and black market dealings. It suggests that the early aesthetic of second-generation filmmakers develops from a tension between referring to and breaking with neorealism. The films considered in this chapter also seek to foreground social formations that predate, ignore, or disrupt the apparent domination of Italy’s new economy and redevelopment.Less
This chapter explores how the second generation of neorealism used citation as a means to critique the politics of vision proposed by the films discussed in the previous chapters. The second-generation films reference neorealism by narrating the daily lives of social and economic outcasts, and by focusing on petty theft, prostitution, con games, and black market dealings. It suggests that the early aesthetic of second-generation filmmakers develops from a tension between referring to and breaking with neorealism. The films considered in this chapter also seek to foreground social formations that predate, ignore, or disrupt the apparent domination of Italy’s new economy and redevelopment.
