Departmental Papers (ASC)

Document Type

Book Chapter

Date of this Version

January 2000

Comments

Copyright © 2000 by Jose V. Ciprut. Reproduced with permission of Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., Westport, CT. Reprinted from The Art of the Feud: Reconceptualizing International Relations, by Jose V. Ciprut, editor (Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2000), pages 1-26.

Abstract

The urge to theorize has been a driving force of Western intellectual tradition. It underlies academic discourse, giving the scientific enterprise its vitality. Without systematic theorizing, much of contemporary culture, particularly technology, would be virtually unthinkable.

Date Posted: 01 April 2008