The Social Evolution of World Politics

by Iver B. Neumann, Mathias Albert, Hauke Brunkhorst

How can we understand long-term change in world politics better? Based on readings of thinkers as diverse as Habermas, Foucault and Luhmann, the authors of this book propose a framework for understanding such change in terms of social evolution. They show that processes of social learning and unlearning are key to understanding the long-term historical evolution of complex societies, and propose to approach these with the core concepts of autonomization,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3837665275
• ISBN13: 9783837665277
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: Transcript Publishing
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"