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Self and other in critical international theory: assimilation, incommensurability and the paradox of critique
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Paipais, Vassilios |
| Copyright Year | 2010 |
| Description | This article is principally concerned with the way some sophisticated critical approaches in International Relations (IR) tend to compromise their critical edge in their engagement with the self/other problematique. Critical approaches that understand critique as total non-violence towards, or unreflective affirmation of, alterity risk falling back into precritical paths. That is, either a particularistic, assimilative universalism with pretensions of true universality or a radical incommensurability and the impossibility of communication with the other. This is what this article understands as the paradox of the politics of critique. Instead, what is more important than seeking a final overcoming or dismissal of the self/other opposition is to gain the insight that it is the perpetual striving to preserve the tension and ambivalence between self and other that rescues both critique's authority and function. |
| Related Links | https://research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk/bitstream/10023/6231/1/Paipais_2015_RIS_Self_AM.pdf https://core.ac.uk/reader/30318739 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/9E90BDCA9F2E6863D360B84CC3A749F6/S0260210510000288a.pdf/div-class-title-self-and-other-in-critical-international-theory-assimilation-incommensurability-and-the-paradox-of-critique-div.pdf |
| Ending Page | 140 |
| Page Count | 20 |
| Starting Page | 121 |
| ISSN | 02602105 |
| e-ISSN | 14699044 |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0260210510000288 |
| Journal | Review of International Studies |
| Issue Number | 1 |
| Volume Number | 37 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) |
| Publisher Date | 2011-01-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Review of International Studies International Relations Incommensurability |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Sociology and Political Science Political Science and International Relations |
