ABSTRACT
The modernist emancipatory international relations (MEIR) is rooted in powerful philosophical arguments derived from the thought of arguably the most formidable and profound thinker of the late eighteenth century, Immanuel Kant, postmodernist emancipatory international relations. On the other hand draws sustenance from the equally formidable and profound thought of another great German philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche. His views, if even roughly true, would compel us to dismiss as confused the Kantian and the neo-Kantian philosophical tradition that remains to this day a formidable candidate in the struggle to determine just what an emancipatory international politics would consist of. The implications of Nietzsche's thought people are well on our way to his nascent postmodernism: his persistent use of figures of speech; his self-referential critique of modernity; and his belief that the age in which he lives is an age of advanced decay which can be neither reversed nor arrested all these mark Nietzsche as a nascent postmodernist.
