Costas M. Constantinou

http://nwhyte.livejournal.com/2604058.html

I picked this up aaaages ago about a year after I started working for Independent Diplomat, and did not get around to reading it until about a year after I stopped working for Independent Diplomat. I don't think the lack of having read it impacted my work; it's a rather philosophical book, analysing diplomacy as communication from the point of view of aesthetics and political theory - it begins with a long analysis of Holbein's The Ambassadors, drawing attention to the controversy over its attribution and subjects, which is all very well but only marginally connected to diplomacy as it is practiced these days. I find myself once again confirmed in my view that anthropology is much more useful to me in my daily life as a political actor than any amount of political theory or philosophy.… (mais)