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What does it mean to say that world affairs are part of a modernist politico-cultural project centered on the twentieth-century version of Positivism, namely, Rationalism? What does it mean to prioritize reason as an end in itself, as a whole cultural value, which is what Rationalism entails? What is modernity, and what kind of world affairs are modernist ones?
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© 2004 Ralph Pettman
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Pettman, R. (2004). World Affairs—The Modernist Project. In: Reason, Culture, Religion. Culture and Religion in International Relations. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403982353_2
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