Author : Robert Schuett
Release : 2010-05-15
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis Political Realism, Freud, and Human Nature in International Relations by : Robert Schuett
Download or read book Political Realism, Freud, and Human Nature in International Relations written by Robert Schuett. This book was released on 2010-05-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of political realism, this book provides an important reappraisal of the concept of human nature in contemporary realist international-political theory. With special reference to the anthropology of Sigmund Freud, a consequential yet terribly neglected and underestimated thinker in International Relations, Schuett demonstrates that analytical and normative theorizing of all international-political reality, its nature, tragedies, and potentialities, requires a sophisticated theory of human nature. Developing a Freudian philosophical anthropology for political realism, he argues for the careful resurrection of the concept of human nature in the wider study of international relations.