Forum Introduction: Social Theory Going Quantum-Theoretic? Questions, Alternatives and Challenges
| Author | Oliver Kessler,Badredine Arfi |
| Published date | 01 September 2018 |
| Date | 01 September 2018 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/0305829818779510 |
| Subject Matter | Forum: Social Theory Going Quantum-Theoretic? Questions, Alternatives and Challenges |
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Millennium: Journal of
International Studies
2018, Vol. 47(1) 67 –73
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Forum Introduction:
Social Theory Going
Quantum-Theoretic?
Questions, Alternatives
and Challenges
Badredine Arfi
University of Florida, USA
Oliver Kessler
University of Erfurt, Germany
Keywords
Alexander Wendt, Social Theory, quantum
Mots-clés
Alexander Wendt, Théories Sociales, Théories quantiques.
Palabras clave
Alexander Wendt, teoría social, quántum
Alexander Wendt’s Quantum Mind and Social Science: Unifying Physical and Social
Ontology proposes a re-reading of many subjects and topics that have concerned IR
theory over the last two decades through the quantum world and word. This book is situ-
ated quite uneasily in IR Theory: it touches upon many themes of IR theory while it
understands itself to be situated beyond IR’s confines. Alexander Wendt readily admits
that this book is more a treatise in social theory than ‘IR’ and he suggests that a third
Corresponding author:
Oliver Kessler, University of Erfurt, Nordhäuserstr 63, Erfurt, 99089, Germany.
Email: oliver.kessler@uni-erfurt.de
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Forum: Social Theory Going Quantum-Theoretic? Questions,
Alternatives and Challenges
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