Praxis as a Perspective on International Politics

Gunther Hellmann is Professor of Political Science at Goethe University.Jens Steffek is Professor of Transnational Governance at the Technical University of Darmstadt.

• 1. Introduction: Praxis as a Perspective on International Politics - Gunther Hellmann and Jens SteffekPart 1: Theorizing Praxis2. Knowing, Remembering, Showing But Still Not Seeing: Critical Praxis, Slavery and the Modern ‘We’ - K.M. Fierke3. Friedrich Kratochwil: Prophet of Doubt? - Cecelia Lynch4. Styles of Theorizing International Practice - Christian Bueger5. Practising Theorizing in Theorizing Praxis: Friedrich Kratochwil and Social Inquiry - Gunther HellmannPart 2: Praxis and the Law6. If Not Rome or The Hague, Where? Reflections on Sanctioning and Punishing - Chris Brown7. Practical Constitutionalism - Anthony F. Lang, Jr.8. Rules, Institutions and Decisions: Taking Distribution Seriously - Jan KlabbersPart 3: Biology, Contingency and History9. I Think, Therefore IR? Psychology, Biology and the Notion of Praxis - James W. Davis10. Practice, Intersubjectivity and the Problem of Contingency - Oliver Kessler11. The Praxis of Change and Theory - Mathias Albert12. Thinking on Time: How Scholarly Praxis Can Sustain, Subvert and Transform Social Reality - Jörg FriedrichsPart 4: Theorizing as Intervention13. Practising Academic Intervention: An Agonistic Reading of Praxis - Antje Wiener14. Between Science and Politics: Friedrich Kratochwil’s Praxis of ‘Going On’ - Patrick Thaddeus Jackson15 Praxis, Humanism and the Quest for Wholeness - Jens SteffekPart 5: Conversing with Critics16. Acting, Representing, Ruling: A Conversation with My Critics on Social Reproduction and the Logic of Social Inquiry - Friedrich Kratochwil