The sense of being-in-common and international relations. (June 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Birol, Ali Fuat
• Is Part Of: Journal of international political theory. Volume 18:Number 2(2022)
• Page Start: 225
• Page End: 243
• Publication Date: 2022-06
• Subjects: Being-in -- community -- international relations theory -- Jean-Luc Nancy -- Martin Heidegger -- political theory; Political science -- Philosophy -- Periodicals; 320.01105
• DOI: 10.1177/17550882211020393
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1755-0882

Abstract

International relations have always been related to a particular sense of living together, both as a concept and as an academic field shaped by some practices of being-together. The question of how international relations perceive a way of living together (as being-together in a common space) has been addressed from the early forms of post-structuralist quests by trying to deal with the issues such as inside/outside, identity/difference, but has not been intensely focused on the issue of common and its alternative perceptions by approaching the fundamental relationship between the ontological status of being-in and being-together. In this article, with focusing on how a particular way of being-in-a-common is related to a certain ontology of international relations, I will utilize French philosopher Jean Luc Nancy's re-writing of Heideggerian notion of Mitsein (being-with) in order to problematize the phenomenon of the international as an intermediate category that defines our meanings of living-together and our relationship with this world.