The subject of coexistence : otherness in international relations / Louiza Odysseos.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Odysseos, Louiza.

Series:

Borderlines (Minneapolis, Minn.) ; v. 28.

Borderlines ; v. 28

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International relations--Philosophy.

International relations.

International relations--Methodology.

Physical Description:

xxxv, 255 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2007]

Summary:

In this pioneering book, Louiza Odysseos argues that debates about ethnic conflict, human rights, and the viability of multicultural communities all revolve around the question of coexistence. Yet, issues of coexistence have not been adequately addressed by international relations. Instead of being regarded as a question, "coexistence" is a term whose meaning is considered self-evident.

The Subject of Coexistence traces the institutional neglect of coexistence to the ontological commitments of international relations as a modern social science predicated on conceptions of modern subjectivity. This reliance leads to the assumption that coexistence means little more than the social and political copresence of individuals, a premise that occludes the roles of otherness in the constitution of the self. Countering this reliance necessitates the examination of how existence itself is coexistential from the start. Odysseos opens up the possibility of a coexistential ontology, drawing on Martin Heidegger and his interlocutors, in which selfhood can be rethought beyond subjectivism, reinstating coexistence as a question for global politics-away from the restrictive discursive parameters of the modern subject.

Contents:

Manifestations of composition

Toward a "hermeneutics of facticity"

An optics of coexistence : Dasein's radical embeddedness in its world

Becoming-proper : authenticity and inauthenticity revisited

Recovering the "ethical" self : global ethics in question

Coexistence, community, and critical belonging.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-239) and index.

ISBN:

9780816648542

0816648549

9780816648559

0816648557

OCLC:

80019814