Cultural Relativism and International Politics

by Derek Robbins

"The political and academic worlds are fractured by two competing discourses: the universalism of human rights and cultural relativism. This fracture is represented by the deep separation of cultural analysis and theories of international politics. Derek Robbins in a brilliant interrogation of European thinkers from Montesquieu to Pierre Bourdieu seeks to replace cultural relativism with cultural relationism as a step towards reconciling Enlightenment...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1473907810
• ISBN13: 9781473907812
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.3"