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The limits of historical sociology: Temporal borders and the reproduction of the ‘modern’ political present
This article develops a poststructuralist critique of the historical sociology of International Relations project. While the historical sociology of International Relations project claims to offer a more nuanced understanding of the state and the international, this article argues that it lacks crit...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5898277/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29708104 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1354066115575399 |
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description | This article develops a poststructuralist critique of the historical sociology of International Relations project. While the historical sociology of International Relations project claims to offer a more nuanced understanding of the state and the international, this article argues that it lacks critical reflection on the notion of a common ground on which ‘history’ and ‘sociology’ can successfully be combined. In order to problematize this ‘ground’, the article turns to Jacques Derrida’s critique of attempts to solve the history–structure dichotomy by finding a perfect combination of historicist and structuralist modes of explanation. Exploring the implications of Derrida’s critique, the article considers how the combination of ‘history’ and ‘sociology’ can be linked to a sovereign politics of time, which reaffirms rather than challenges the limits of the ‘modern’ political present and its relationship to the past, as well as the future. In response, it is suggested that a more radical critique is needed, one that seeks to disrupt the ‘modern’ political present and the contingent ground on which it rests. |
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spelling | pubmed-58982772018-04-25 The limits of historical sociology: Temporal borders and the reproduction of the ‘modern’ political present Lundborg, Tom Eur J Int Relat Article This article develops a poststructuralist critique of the historical sociology of International Relations project. While the historical sociology of International Relations project claims to offer a more nuanced understanding of the state and the international, this article argues that it lacks critical reflection on the notion of a common ground on which ‘history’ and ‘sociology’ can successfully be combined. In order to problematize this ‘ground’, the article turns to Jacques Derrida’s critique of attempts to solve the history–structure dichotomy by finding a perfect combination of historicist and structuralist modes of explanation. Exploring the implications of Derrida’s critique, the article considers how the combination of ‘history’ and ‘sociology’ can be linked to a sovereign politics of time, which reaffirms rather than challenges the limits of the ‘modern’ political present and its relationship to the past, as well as the future. In response, it is suggested that a more radical critique is needed, one that seeks to disrupt the ‘modern’ political present and the contingent ground on which it rests. SAGE Publications 2016-03 /pmc/articles/PMC5898277/ /pubmed/29708104 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1354066115575399 Text en © The Author(s) 2015 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | Article Lundborg, Tom The limits of historical sociology: Temporal borders and the reproduction of the ‘modern’ political present |
title | The limits of historical sociology: Temporal borders and the reproduction of the ‘modern’ political present |
title_full | The limits of historical sociology: Temporal borders and the reproduction of the ‘modern’ political present |
title_fullStr | The limits of historical sociology: Temporal borders and the reproduction of the ‘modern’ political present |
title_full_unstemmed | The limits of historical sociology: Temporal borders and the reproduction of the ‘modern’ political present |
title_short | The limits of historical sociology: Temporal borders and the reproduction of the ‘modern’ political present |
title_sort | limits of historical sociology: temporal borders and the reproduction of the ‘modern’ political present |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5898277/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29708104 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1354066115575399 |
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