| ID | 161630 |
| Title Proper | Forum introduction |
| Other Title Information | social theory going quantum-theoretic? questions, alternatives and challenges |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Arfi, Badredine |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Alexander Wendt’s Quantum Mind and Social Science: Unifying Physical and Social Ontology proposes a re-reading of many subjects and topics that have concerned IR theory over the last two decades through the quantum world and word. This book is situated quite uneasily in IR Theory: it touches upon many themes of IR theory while it understands itself to be situated beyond IR’s confines. Alexander Wendt readily admits that this book is more a treatise in social theory than ‘IR’ and he suggests that a third book will deal with ‘IR proper’.1 One could even say that this new book by Wendt is not even about a social theory of international politics as defined in his 1999 first – then groundbreaking – book. This book is about the philosophy of science and beyond … much beyond, even if the book does not always announce it as such. |
| `In' analytical Note | Millennium: Journal of International Studies Vol. 47, No.1; Sep 2018: p.67-73 |
| Journal Source | Millennium: Journal of International Studies 2018-10 47, 1 |
| Key Words | Social Theory ; Alexander Wendt ; Quantum |