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.
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