TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chiaruzzi,Michele
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Martin Wight on Fortune and Irony in Politics
T2  - The Palgrave Macmillan History of International Thought
SN  - 9781137528735 (ebook: PDF)
U1  - 320.941 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - New York
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan US (Imprint)
KW  - Great Britain-Politics and gover
KW  - International relations
KW  - Political science
KW  - World politics
KW  - Political History
N2  - Martin Wight was one of the most influential twentieth-century British thinkers who investigated on international politics and continues to inspire the English school of international relations. Containing a previously unpublished essay by Wight, this book brings this essay, "Fortune's Banter", to light. The importance of imponderable elements on human affairs is well understood, at least since the dawn of Western culture. The reversals and incongruities of life are common events. Fortune and irony are categories of practical understanding, but they also describe the most ancient and fundamental experience in politics. It is this experience in which Michele Chiaruzzi examines Martin Wight's seminal philosophy. Martin Wight on Fortune and Irony in Politics provides awareness of imponderable factors in politics that tends to mitigate their role and is an antidote to political dogmatism
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-52873-5
ER  -