Contents

pp vii-viii

Notes on Contributors

pp ix-x

Acknowledgements

pp xi-xii

1 - Introduction: Praxis as a Perspective on International Politics

pp 1-16

Part I - Theorizing Praxis

pp 17-18

2 - Knowing, Remembering, Showing But Still Not Seeing: Critical Praxis, Slavery and the Modern ‘We’

pp 19-32

3 - Friedrich Kratochwil: Prophet of Doubt?

pp 33-50

4 - Styles of Theorizing International Practice

pp 51-71

5 - Practising Theorizing in Theorizing Praxis: Friedrich Kratochwil and Social Inquiry

pp 72-94

Part II - Praxis and the Law

pp 95-96

6 - If Not Rome or The Hague, Where? Reflections on Sanctioning and Punishing

pp 97-111

7 - Practical Constitutionalism

pp 112-126

8 - Rules, Institutions and Decisions: Taking Distribution Seriously

pp 127-142

Part III - Biology, Contingency and History

pp 143-144

9 - I Think, Therefore IR? Psychology, Biology and the Notion of Praxis

pp 145-165

10 - Practice, Intersubjectivity and the Problem of Contingency

pp 166-181

11 - The Praxis of Change and Theory

pp 182-196

12 - Thinking on Time: How Scholarly Praxis Can Sustain, Subvert and Transform Social Reality

pp 197-212

Part IV - Theorizing as Intervention

pp 213-214

13 - Practising Academic Intervention: An Agonistic Reading of Praxis

pp 215-233

14 - Between Science and Politics: Friedrich Kratochwil’s Praxis of ‘Going On’

pp 234-254

15 - Praxis, Humanism and the Quest for Wholeness

pp 255-272

Part V - Conversing with Critics

pp 273-274

16 - Acting, Representing, Ruling: A Conversation with My Critics on Social Reproduction and the Logic of Social Inquiry

pp 275-299

Index

pp 300-308