Men and States: Rethinking the Domestic Analogy in a Global Age

188 Pages·2009·1.38 MB·English

by  Chiara Bottici (auth.)

Men and States
Also by Chiara Bottici
A PHILOSOPHY OF POLITICAL MYTH
Men and States
Rethinking the Domestic Analogy in a
Global Age
Chiara Bottici
Department of Philosophy
University of Florence, Italy
Translation from the Italian by Karen Whittle
© Chiara Bottici 2009
English translation © Karen Whittle 2009
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Bottici, Chiara.
[Uomini e stati. English.]
Men and states: rethinking the domestic analogy in a global age /
Chiara Bottici; translation from the Italian by Karen Whittle.
p. cm.
Translated from the Italian.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-230-20681-6
1. International relations. 2. Political science—Philosophy. I. Title.
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to all the expectant mothers
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Contents
Preface to the English Edition ix
Acknowledgements xi
Introduction 1
1 The Domestic Analogy 11
1.1 The origins of the debate 12
1.2 Analogical reasoning and the domestic analogy 19
1.3 Disentangling the domestic analogy 26
2 The Domestic Analogy in Modern Political Thought 37
2.1 Hobbes and the realist tradition 39
2.2 Kant and the idealist tradition 51
2.3 Grotius and the rationalist tradition 68
3 The Domestic Analogy in Contemporary Theories 81
3.1 Neoidealism 83
3.2 Neorealism 94
3.3 Neoinstitutionalism 106
3.4 Beyond the three traditions: Constructivism,
postmodernism, feminism and marxism 115
Epilogue: The Domestic Analogy in the Global Era 133
Notes 142
Bibliography 154
Index 166
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Preface to the English Edition
This book is the revised and expanded English version of a book that
was published in Italian in 2004 under the title Uomini e Stati: Percorsi
di un’analogia (Pisa, ETS). For this edition, the text has undergone a
considerable amount of revision. All chapters have been updated with
references to more recent literature, whereas more substantial work has
been done on Chapter 1 and an entire new section has been added to
Chapter 3.
In particular, the discussions raised by the Italian book made me
realise that I needed to spell out more explicitly the disciplinary
boundaries of this work. In the English edition I have therefore tried to
make it explicit that, in all of its parts, this has been conceived as both
a work on political philosophy and international relations theory. As
will become clear later on, this work is based on the assumption that,
particularly today, in an epoch of globalisation, we need to rethink the
boundaries between these disciplines while heading towards a new form
of global political theory.
The re-writing of Chapter 1 resulted in a new organisation of the
chapters: sections 1.2 and 1.3 of the Italian version have been merged
into a single chapter, while the remaining two chapters have been
expanded. Chapters 2 and 3 have also been updated and expanded,
while section 3.4 has been written afresh for this edition. The debate
caused by the book made me aware that I needed to show in more detail
how contemporary thinking has gone, so to speak, ‘beyond the three
traditions’ of international thought identified by M. Wight many years
ago, as well as how this is reflected in a different attitude towards the
domestic analogy.
Finally, I would like to add two linguistic remarks. First, the reader
will notice that in many parts of this work, the text is not feminised.
This reflects the awareness that in most of the theories analysed in this
book the domestic analogy is an analogy between ‘men’ and ‘states’ and
not between ‘human beings’ and ‘states’. The inconsistencies between
the different parts of the texts, and in particular between quotations
from earlier authors and the rest of the text, are a way to signal the
problem.
Similarly, oscillations between the capitalised and non-capitalised
substantive term ‘State’ are meant to signal the differences that arise
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