Bibliothèque de L'IMIST/CNRST

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Critical theory, immanent critique, and the international -- Part I : critical theory past and present : four currents of immanent critique -- Dialectics, historical materialism, and repression -- The Frankfurt School : the rise of radical immanence and communicative action theory -- Part II : critical international theory : perspectives on complementarity -- Communicative rationality, recognition, and the lego-political complementarity -- Social ontology : from critical realism to the quantum challenge -- Justice, negative dialectics, and immanent complementarity -- Complementarity envisaged : self-legitimization and the global social imaginary.

In recent years, a growing number of international relations scholars and students have drawn on critical theory to shed new light on global transformations. This book provides a detailed account on the origins of critical theory and explains how it has developed and influenced international relations.