{"product_id":"world-ordering-a-social-theory-of-cognitive-evolution-paperback-9781108412674","title":"World Ordering; A Social Theory of Cognitive Evolution (Paperback \/ softback) 9781108412674","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eWorld Ordering\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Social Theory of Cognitive Evolution\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTaking world ordering as international relations theory's primary challenge, Adler suggests cognitive evolution, a practice-based social theory, to explain it.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eEmanuel Adler (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108412674, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 7 March 2019\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e394 pages, 1 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.8 x 15.3 x 2 cm, 0.57 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'Emanuel Adler has been thinking about cognitive evolution, collective meaning, and social construction for a very long time. This book represents a major statement of his mature views, a kind of theoretical summation of decades of scholarship.' Perspectives on Politics\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eDrawing on evolutionary epistemology, process ontology, and a social-cognition approach, this book suggests cognitive evolution, an evolutionary-constructivist social and normative theory of change and stability of international social orders. It argues that practices and their background knowledge survive preferentially, communities of practice serve as their vehicle, and social orders evolve. As an evolutionary theory of world ordering, which does not borrow from the natural sciences, it explains why certain configurations of practices organize and govern social orders epistemically and normatively, and why and how these configurations evolve from one social order to another. Suggesting a multiple and overlapping international social orders' approach, the book uses three running cases of contested orders - Europe's contemporary social order, the cyberspace order, and the corporate order - to illustrate the theory. Based on the concepts of common humanity and epistemological security, the author also submits a normative theory of better practices and of bounded progress.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePrologue. The crux of the matter\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Social Constructivism as Cognitive Evolution: 1. Samurai crabs and international social orders\u003cbr\u003e 2. Evolutionary ontology: from being to becoming\u003cbr\u003e 3. Evolutionary epistemology\u003cbr\u003e 4. Practices, background knowledge, communities of practice, social orders\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Cognitive Evolution Theory and International Social Orders: 5. International social orders\u003cbr\u003e 6. Cognitive evolution theory: social mechanisms and processes\u003cbr\u003e 7. Agential social mechanisms\u003cbr\u003e 8. Creative variation\u003cbr\u003e 9. Selective retention\u003cbr\u003e 10. Better practices and bounded progress\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: world ordering.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Geopolitics [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Geopolitics\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Geopolitics%20%5BJPSL%5D%22\"\u003eJPSL\u003c\/a\u003e], International relations [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on International relations\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22International%20relations%20%5BJPS%5D%22\"\u003eJPS\u003c\/a\u003e], Social theory [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Social theory\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Social%20theory%20%5BJHBA%5D%22\"\u003eJHBA\u003c\/a\u003e], Social \u0026amp; political philosophy [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Social \u0026amp; political philosophy\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Social%20\u0026amp;%20political%20philosophy%20%5BHPS%5D%22\"\u003eHPS\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46002421956888,"sku":"9781108412674","price":29.87,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781108412674i.jpg?v=1696753792","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/world-ordering-a-social-theory-of-cognitive-evolution-paperback-9781108412674","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}