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The Subject of Coexistence Otherness in International Relations Louiza Odysseos Table of Contents |
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Interrogates the concept of coexistence, central to modern IR theory and praxis. 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. Louiza Odysseos is senior lecturer in international relations at the University of Sussex. 272 pages | 5 7⁄8 x 9 | 2007 TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgments Introduction: Subjectivity, Coexistence, and the Question of Heteronomy 1. Manifestations of Composition 2. Toward a “Hermeneutics of Facticity” 3. An Optics of Coexistence: Dasein’s Radical Embeddedness in Its World 4. Becoming-Proper: Authenticity and Inauthenticity Revisited 5. Recovering the “Ethical” Self: Global Ethics in Question 6. Coexistence, Community, and Critical Belonging Conclusion Notes Index |
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