MetaCampbell: The epistemological problematics of perspectivism

Review of International Studies

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 311-316

  Wight, Colin ^a  

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EID: 0033408138     PISSN: 02602105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0260210599003113     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. David Campbell, 'MetaBosnia: Narratives of the Bosnian War', Review of International Studies, 24:2 (1998), pp. 261-81.
2. Campbell, MetaBosnia, p. 279.
3. Hayden White, The Content of the Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation (Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1987), p. 75. Quoted in Campbell, MetaBosnia, p. 262.
4. Hayden White, The Content of the Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation (Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1987), p. 75. Quoted in Campbell, MetaBosnia, p. 262.
5. Campbell, MetaBosnia, p. 279.
6. Campbell's review is helpful in highlighting the fact that one can be committed to some form of objectivism without necessarily embracing positivism.
7. Campbell, MetaBosnia, p. 263.
8. Campbell, MetaBosnia, p. 280.
9. Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals, trans. W. Kaufmann and R. J. Hollingdale (New York: T. N. Foulis, 1989), p. 119.
10. Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus spoke Zarathustra, trans. R. J. Hollingdale (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1961), p. 84.
11. Referring to women Nietzsche argued that it was a treat to meet creatures 'who have only dancing and nonsense and finery in their minds!' Oscar Levy (ed.), The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche: The Will to Power, vols 3 and 4 (London: T. N. Foulis, 1910). pp. 355-6. And, 'It is Necessary for Higher men to declare war on the masses . . . Everything that pampers, that softens, and that brings the "people" or "woman" to the front, operates in favour of universal suffrage - that is to say the dominion of "inferior" men'. Nietzsche, Will to Power, p. 297.
12. Referring to women Nietzsche argued that it was a treat to meet creatures 'who have only dancing and nonsense and finery in their minds!' Oscar Levy (ed.), The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche: The Will to Power, vols 3 and 4 (London: T. N. Foulis, 1910). pp. 355-6. And, 'It is Necessary for Higher men to declare war on the masses . . . Everything that pampers, that softens, and that brings the "people" or "woman" to the front, operates in favour of universal suffrage - that is to say the dominion of "inferior" men'. Nietzsche, Will to Power, p. 297.
13. Campbell, MetaBosnia, p. 281.
14. Campbell, MetaBosnia, pp. 280-81.
15. Nietzsche, Genealogy, p. 119.
16. Nietzsche, Genealogy, p. 119.
17. Campbell, MetaBosnia, p. 279.
18. Campbell, MetaBosnia, p. 279.
19. Campbell, MetaBosnia, p. 281.
20. By epistemological relativism here I mean only that all beliefs are socially produced, so that knowledge is transient, and neither truth-values nor criteria of rationality exist outside of historical time.
21. José Ortega y Gasset, The Revolt of the Masses (London: Unwin Books, 1961).
22. Jacques Derrida, 'Remarks on Deconstruction and Pragmatism', in Chantal Mouffe (ed.), Deconstruction and Pragmatism, trans. Simon Critchley (London: Routledge, 1996), pp. 77-88. Jacques Derrida, 'Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences', in David Lodge (ed.), Modern Criticism and Theory (Harlow: Longman, 1988), pp. 108-24.
23. Jacques Derrida, 'Remarks on Deconstruction and Pragmatism', in Chantal Mouffe (ed.), Deconstruction and Pragmatism, trans. Simon Critchley (London: Routledge, 1996), pp. 77-88. Jacques Derrida, 'Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences', in David Lodge (ed.), Modern Criticism and Theory (Harlow: Longman, 1988), pp. 108-24.
24. Campbell, MetaBosnia, p. 263.
25. Mihailo Crnobrnja, The Yugoslav Drama, 2nd. edn. (London: I. B. Taurus, 1996). Even the first edition was only published in 1994. Two years after the events under Campbell's gaze.
26. Campbell, MetaBosnia, p. 261.