Political Realism, Freud, and Human Nature in International Relations: The Resurrection of the Realist ManIn the tradition of political realism, this book provides an important reappraisal of the concept of human nature in contemporary realist international-political theory. With special reference to the anthropology of Sigmund Freud, a consequential yet terribly neglected and underestimated thinker in International Relations, Schuett demonstrates that analytical and normative theorizing of all international-political reality, its nature, tragedies, and potentialities, requires a sophisticated theory of human nature. Developing a Freudian philosophical anthropology for political realism, he argues for the careful resurrection of the concept of human nature in the wider study of international relations. |
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Political Realism and the Strange Death of Human Nature | 3 |
Classical Realism on Human Nature and Freud 33333 | 23 |
The Human Nature of PostClassical Realism | 55 |
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