History's Fools: The Pursuit of Idealism and the Revenge of Politics PDF
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HISTORY’S FOOLS DAVID MARTIN JONES MICHEL ELTCHANINOFF History’s Fools The Pursuit of Idealism and the Revenge of Politics Inside the Mind of Marine Le Pen HURST &3 COMPANY, LONDON 3 Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and in certain other countries. Published in the United States of America by Oxford University Press 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016, United States of America © David Martin Jones, 2020 First published in the United Kingdom in 2020 by C. Hurst & Co. (Publishers) Ltd All rights reserved. No part of Publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, by license, or under terms agreed with the appropriate reproduction rights organization. Inquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above. You must not circulate this work in any other form and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer A copy of this book’s Cataloging-in-Publication Data is on fi le with the Library of Congress. ISBN 9780197510612 For J, B, L. CONTENTS Acknowledgments xi 1. Introduction 1 2. The End of History and the Kantian Moment 5 3. Post-Cold War International Political Theory 29 4. The Progressive Mind and the Islamist Challenge 59 5. The Incoherence of the Philosophers 95 6. The Language of Progress and the Closure of the 131 European Mind 7. The Networked Global Order 151 8. All Roads Lead to China 187 9. Maxims or Axioms? 209 10. The Revenge of Politics and the Search for Order 245 11. Conclusion 291 Afterword: The Study of International Relations and the 309 Erosion of Academic Integrity Notes 321 Bibliography 393 Index 417 There is some grandiose ludicrousness in the spectacle of these men… submitting often from one day to the other, humbly and without so much as a cry of outrage, to the call of historical necessity…they were fooled by history, and they have become the fools of history. (Hannah Arendt, On Revolution, 1963)
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