The concept of truth in International Relations theory: critical thought beyond post-positivism
- Submitting institution
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The University of Westminster
- Unit of assessment
- 19 - Politics and International Studies
- Output identifier
- q2v44
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN
- 9781137550323
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- April
- Year of publication
- 2017
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- This book draws on over 9 years of research on Adorno’s negative dialectics, neglected in International Relations, to combine recognition of truth’s political character with insistence on its ‘objectivity’. The partially abstract character of critical IR theories arises not, as is often alleged, from their concern with epistemology but from their assumption that truth is (inter)subjective. The study required extensive engagement with ‘Veriphobic’ Poststructuralist and ‘Veriphiliac’ Habermasian approaches to show how their limits can be overcome, and challenges such as ‘Post-Truth’ and the destruction of nonhuman nature understood, once we recognise that ‘subjectivism’ is a pathology integral to modern capitalism.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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