Inspired by Michel Foucault's The Order of Things, this book tells a story about epochal change in the modern world. Like Foucault, Nicholas Onuf is concerned with how we moderns think about ourselves and our world, but in this book he emphasizes the conceptual links in the ways we think, talk, get things done, conduct ourselves, and run societies, from age to age. As with his previous work, Onuf emphasizes the "rules for rule" that have solidified over time through repeated behaviors that work themselves out into a system of social uniformity and hierarchy. Rules set out who is a member of society, establish goals, provide opportunities to act, and dictate who sits on top -- in other words, what any political society looks like in a particular time and place. This book looks at the political society that has evolved since the Renaissance, or what might be called "the modern world," in order to consider what is yet to come. Onuf argues that modernity, although consisting of a succession of epochs or ages separated by great ruptures, has continued to change within the confines of a "mightie frame" (a turn of phrase he borrows from John Milton). Epoch by epoch, this frame has linked the limits of our knowledge, à la Michel Foucault, to conditions of rule, and it points to a plausible ethics for what comes next. But unlike Foucault, Onuf argues that modernism marked an end to societal and political transitions, and that we have entered a period during which established conditions of rule are likely to be reinforced -- and the mighty frame will grow ever mightier.

The Mightie Frame: Epochal Change and the Modern World

Politics & Social Sciences

Onuf, Nicholas Greenwood

Politics & Government

Oxford University Press

The Republican Legacy in International Thought (Cambridge Studies in International Relations, Series Number 59)

Republicanism has enjoyed a revival of interest in several fields. In this book Nicholas Onuf provides the first major treatment of the republican way of thinking about law, politics and society in the context of international thought. The author's discussion of republicanism starts with Aristotle and culminates in the eighteenth century, when international thought became a distinctive enterprise. By analyzing the thought of Vattel and Kant he identifies a substantial legacy of republicanism in contemporary discussions of sovereignty, intervention, international society, peace, and the global economy.

Cambridge University Press

World of Our Making: Rules and Rule in Social Theory and International Relations (Studies in International Relations)

Sociology

Univ of South Carolina Pr

Onuf understands all of international relations to be a matter of rules and rule in foreign behavior and draws on the work of such diverse figures as Kenneth Arrow, J.L. Austin, Max Black, Michael Foucault, Anthony Giddens, Jurgen Habermas, Lawrence Kohlberg, Harold Lasswell, Talcott Parsons, Jean Piaget, J.G.A. Pocock, John Roemer, John Scarle and Sheldon Wolin to reveal a consistent pattern of categories of rules, rule and related social phenomena.

Social Sciences

<p>This work discusses international law, how it is made, and how it should be made. It is a compilation of chapters written by five different authors. Topics include global law making and legal thought, what counts as law?, global bargaining:the legal and diplomatic framework, International law making: a view from technology, and measuring transformation in the global legal system.</p>

Law Making in the Global Community

Foreign & International Law

Carolina Academic Pr

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