Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The meaning of community -- What this book does and does not do -- The moral problematique of international relations and the problem of community -- Justice as recognition of difference -- Self/other relations in the conquest of America: annihilation, assimilation, coexistence and communication -- Discovery and conquest -- Assimilation -- Equality -- Coexistence -- Communication -- Chapter structure -- 1 Beyond the cosmopolitan/communitarian divide -- The cosmopolitan/communitarian divide in international relations theory -- Liberal-cosmopolitanism: Beitz -- Communitarianism -- Difference and exclusion in Walzer -- Beyond the cosmopolitan/communitarian divide -- Conclusion -- 2 Community and communication in interpretive theories of international relations -- Constitutive theory -- Poststructuralist international relations theory -- Poststructuralist international relations and the problem of community. -- Deterritorialised ethics: freedom, democracy and responsibility -- The ethics of responsibility -- Poststructuralism and the cosmopolitan/communitarian divide -- Critical theory -- Discourse ethics and the cosmopolitan project -- Discourse ethics and post-Westphalian communities -- Conclusion -- 3 Emancipation and legislation: the boundaries of conversation in poststructuralism and the critical theory of IR -- Emancipation and legislation: reason, agency and practice in critical theory and poststructuralist IR -- Agency and practice in poststructuralism -- Discourse ethics: universality, dialogue and difference -- Universalisation and the right versus the good -- Agency and inclusion in discourse ethics -- Discourse ethics and emancipation -- Conclusion.

4 Philosophical hermeneutics: understanding, practical reasoning and human solidarity -- The hermeneutic claim to universality: understanding as mode of being-in the-world -- The dialogic model of understanding: the fusion of horizons -- Socratic conversation -- Phronesis -- Philosophical hermeneutics as practical philosophy: understanding and solidarity -- The model of conversation in discourse ethics and philosophical hermeneutics -- Reason, understanding and agency in philosophical hermeneutics -- Conclusion -- 5 Philosophical hermeneutics and its critics -- Philosophical hermeneutics and critical theory -- Philosophical hermeneutics and deconstruction -- The task of reciprocal illumination -- Conversation and dialogue revisited -- Conclusion -- 6 Towards a thin cosmopolitanism -- Opening and enhancing communication -- Beyond international society -- A variegated cosmopolitanism -- Human rights and dialogue -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.