Reviews for The Story of Analytic Philosophy: Plot and Heroes, Vol. 1

The average rating for The Story of Analytic Philosophy: Plot and Heroes, Vol. 1 based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-12-09 00:00:00 Timothy Howard While in the field of IR this book should be considered a most scholarly book, the fact that it is pays tribute to the intellectual impotence of our field. This book is the pinnacle of the obsession of coming up with a master theory of the agent-structure relationship. Since Waltz, theory in IR is so alien and disconnected from the world, it's of no interest to anybody besides some nerds at university departments. Such is the state of our field that, if you wanted to study actual International Relations, you'd have to study journalism, conflict studies, or business...

Review # 2 was written on 2008-03-23 00:00:00 Paul Viapiana Un excelente libro. Wight discute el problema agente-estructura en la teoría social, así como sus repercusiones en el campo de las Relaciones Internacionales. Propone su propia solución al problema, basándose en el realismo científico de Roy Bhaskar. Esto lo lleva no solamente a repensar la agencia y la estructura social, sino que también lo dirige a clarificar qué hace la ciencia y qué distingue a la ontología, la epistemología y la metodología.