Forget Hobbes
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11230%2F16%3A10323565" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11230/16:10323565 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/ip.2016.6" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/ip.2016.6</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/ip.2016.6" target="_blank" >10.1057/ip.2016.6</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Forget Hobbes
Original language description
This article has a threefold aim. First, it criticises the instrumentalisation of intellectual history in international relations (IR) that clouds issues of contemporary politics rather than illuminating them. Second, benefiting from the recent advances in Hobbes' studies in the field of political theory and emphasising the importance of both textual plausibility and authorial intentions for preserving the 'horizon' of the possible interpretations, it suggests that 'IR' were of no particular concern to Hobbes, and the few scattered remarks on the 'superpolitical' state of the many governments interacting with each other are functionally subservient to the purpose of demonstrating the reality of the state of nature. Third, by pointing to the 'security continuum' of various states present in his political theory, the article challenges the reading of Hobbes as authoring the discipline's foundational inside/outside difference. It concludes by making a case that the field would benefit from curing itself from the 'Hobsession' it seems to be suffering and from forgetting Hobbes to open space for rethinking international politics.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
AD - Political sciences
OECD FORD branch
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Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2016
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
International Politics
ISSN
1384-5748
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
53
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
18
Pages from-to
285-302
UT code for WoS article
000375364000001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-84964578145