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1 online resource (181 pages) |
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Rethinking Asia and International Relations Ser |
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Rethinking Asia and International Relations Ser
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Subject-object dualism; Science-metaphysics dualism; Phenomena-noumena dualism; Advaitic monism: founding the missing connectedness amid dualisms; References; 1. Advaita in international relations: A philosophical restoration; Advaita: an incessant journey in Indian intellectual history; Advaita: an apposite resource in Indian IR; Advaita: an untapped potential in non-Eurocentric Global IR; Epistemological-ontological-methodological trajectories; Theoretical allocations |
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Concluding remarksReferences; 2. Reality, appearance and unreality of international politics: An Advaitic review; 'Reality' in Eurocentric IR: the ontology-phenomenology framework; 'Reality', 'appearance' and 'unreality' in Advaita: the threefold ontology; Reconceptualization of international politics: an ontological shift from Eurocentric dualism to Advaitic monism; Concluding remarks; References; 3. Temporality and spatiality of international relations: An Advaitic reconfiguration; Eurocentric IR: a dichotomized spectacle of time and space |
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Fragmentations of time and space in Eurocentric IR: a dualist Kantian indexReconfiguring time-space in IR: an Advaitic monist intervention; Concluding remarks; References; 4. The Advaitic theory of international relations: Reconciling dualism and monism in the pursuit of the 'global'; Eurocentric IR vs Global IR: a discordant dispute on non-western and post-western?; Advaita: a non-derivative and non-exceptionalist resource for theorizing Global IR; Advaita as a Global IR theory: presaging dualism-monismreconciliation; Concluding remarks; References; Conclusion |
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Restoring monist epistemology, ontology and methodologyReviewing dualist realities, appearances and unrealities; Reconfiguring dualist temporality and spatiality; Reconciling dualism with monism in the pursuit of the 'global'; Index |
| Summary |
The academic discipline of International Relations strives to attain a 'global' spirit to narrow the cognitive gaps between the West and the Rest. On the one hand, there is the hegemonic presence of mainstream universalist Eurocentric IR theories, and on the other the counter-hegemonic presence of particularist Post-colonial and De-colonial non-Eurocentric IR theories. Nevertheless, both theoretical traditions endorse 'epistemological dualism' that essentially separates the 'theorizing-subject' from the 'theorized-object'; thereby failing to bridge the gaps. This book uses the monist schema of 'subject-object merger' in the ancient Indian philosophy of Advaita to inaugurate a Global IR theory. In the global theoretical schema of Advaitic monism, the apparent particularist reality is supplemented (not contradicted) with the hidden universalist reality - the net result of which is a reconciliation of dualism with monism at the theoretical-practical level. The possibilities of this reconciliation have not been estimated at either level and as such, this untapped intellectual strategy stands to enrich both Eurocentric IR and non-Eurocentric IR. Shahi establishes Advaita as an alternative epistemological-methodological tool to re-imagine the complex realities of contemporary international politics. This fully fledged Global International Relations Theory will appeal to students of international relations, political theory, administrative theory and philosophy |
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Print version record |
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Advaita.
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International relations -- Philosophy.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Globalization.
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Advaita.
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International relations -- Philosophy.
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Electronic book
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9781351018012 |
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1351018019 |
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