Grand Narratives in Critical International Theory by Andr Sa... - 9781032118406

Grand Narratives in Critical International TheoryAuthor(s): Andr Saramago\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032118406, 978-1032118406\nSynopsis\nCritical international theory has the task of providing orientation to human beings in better understanding their conditions of existence, how those conditions came to assume their contemporary characteristics, and what immanent potential they might hold for emancipatory transformation. The argument in this book is that this task of orientation is indissociable from a reliance on grand narratives that capture the main features of the long-term process of human development. And yet, many of these grand narratives also tend to reproduce Eurocentric worldviews that undermine critical international theorys reliability as a means of orientation. In this book, Andr Saramago provides an innovative answer to the problem of orientation with which critical international theory is .