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Forum on Joseph A. Camilleri and Jim Falk's Worlds in Transition

Histories and crises: modern, global, natural and social

Pages 31-35 | Published online: 30 Jan 2012
 

Notes

1 Joseph A. Camilleri and Jim Falk, Worlds in Transition: Evolving Governance across a Stressed Planet (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2009), 1.

2 Ibid., 2.

3 Ibid., 2.

4 Ibid., 2.

5 Ibid., 3.

6 David Christian, Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2004).

7 Christian, Maps of Time, 92.

8 Barry Buzan and Richard Little, International Systems in World History: Remaking the Study of International Relations (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000).

9 Camilleri and Falk, Worlds in Transition, 3.

10 Herbert Butterfield, Man on his Past: The Study of the History of Historical Scholarship (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1955), 7. For valuable historiographical accounts of global history see Patrick O'Brien, ‘Historiographical Traditions and Modern Imperatives for the Restoration of Global History’, Journal of Global History 1, no. 1 (2006): 3–39; and Duncan Bell, ‘Writing the World: Disciplinary History and Beyond’, International Affairs 85, no. 1 (2009): 3–22.

11 For a critique of evolutionary biology and its most prominent variant, evolutionary psychology, see Duncan Bell, ‘Beware of False Prophets: Biology, Human Nature and the Future of International Relations Theory’, International Affairs 82, no. 3 (2006): 493–510.

12 Camilleri and Falk, Worlds in Transition, 18; see also 75.

13 Aristotle, The Politics, trans. T.A. Sinclair and Trevor J. Saunders (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1992); Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract and Discourses, trans. G.D.H. Cole, J.H. Brumfit, and John C. Hall (London: Everyman's Library, 1973), especially ‘A Discourse on the Arts and Sciences’, 1–30, and ‘A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality’, 31–126; Herbert Spencer, Principles of Sociology (London: Williams and Norgate, 1882–1888), vols 1 and 2; Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1958); Giorgio Agamben, Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life, trans. Daniel Heller-Roazen (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998).

14 Camilleri and Falk, Worlds in Transition, 41–65.

15 Thomas Hobbes, De Cive, trans. Howard Warrender (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983), 92.

16 Samuel Pufendorf, The Law of Nature and Nations, trans. C. Oldfather and W. Oldfather (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1934), 952 and 955.

17 For further elaboration of this contextualist historiography in early modern natural law theory, see Ian Hunter, ‘The History of Philosophy and the Persona of the Philosopher’, Modern Intellectual History 4, no. 3 (2007): 571–600.

18 See Reinhart Koselleck, Futures Past: On the Semantics of Historical Time, trans. Keith Tribe (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1985), especially the chapters on ‘Modernity and the Planes of Historicity’, 3–20, and ‘“Neuzeit”: Remarks on the Semantics of the Modern Concepts of Movement’, 231–66.

19 Koselleck, Futures Past, 252.

20 Koselleck, ‘“Space of Experience” and “Horizon of Expectation”: Two Historical Categories’, in Futures Past, 267–88.

21 Reinhart Koselleck, ‘Crisis’, trans. Michaela W. Richter, Journal of the History of Ideas 67, no. 2 (2006): 372.

22 Camilleri and Falk, Worlds in Transition, 76.

23 Ibid., 177.

24 Ibid., 530.

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