Hegel's House, or ‘People are states too’

Review of International Studies

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 281-287

  Jackson, Patrick Thaddeus ^a  

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EID: 11144357994     PISSN: 02602105     EISSN: 14699044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0260210504006072     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. G. W. F. Hegel, Introduction to the Philosophy of History, trans. Leo Rauch (Indianapolis, IN: Hackett, 1988), p. 30.
2. Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, trans. G. E. M. Anscombe (Oxford: Blackwell, 1953), §58.
3. Roy Bhaskar, The Possibility of Naturalism, 3rd edn. (London: Routledge, 1998), p. 99.
4. The Possibility of Naturalism, p. 92.
5. Colin Wight, ‘They Shoot Dead Horses Don't They? Locating Agency in the Agent-Structure Problematique’, European Journal of International Relations, 5:1 (1999), pp. 131-133.
6. Wendt, Social Theory, p. 198.
7. Emanuel Adler, ‘Seizing the Middle Ground: Constructivism in World Politics’, European Journal of International Relations, 3:3 (1997), pp. 332-333.
8. Fred Chernoff, ‘Scientific Realism as a Meta-Theory of International Politics’, International Studies Quarterly, 46:2 (2002), pp. 193-195.
9. Max Weber, ‘Die “Objektivität” Sozialwissenschaftlicher und Sozialpolitischer Erkenntnis’, in Gesammelte Aufsätze zur Wissenschaftslehre, ed. Elizabeth Flitner (Potsdam: Internet-Ausgabe, ), p. 191.
10. Weber, ‘Objectivität’, p. 193.
11. David Sylvan and Stephan Majeski, ‘A Methodology for the Study of Historical Counterfactuals’, International Studies Quarterly, 42:1 (1998), pp. 85-89.
12. Accounts are not theories in the strong sense, and hence make no essential claims about the character of reality - John Shotter, Conversational Realities (London: Sage, 1993), pp. 113-115. My posing of this alternative thus avoids Wendt's charge (Wendt, Social Theory, p. 67) that all social research is implicitly ‘realist’ to the extent that it uses empirical evidence (‘we are all realists in practice,’ he declares). But not all claims about ‘reality’ are scientific realist claims.
13. John Shotter, Cultural Politics of Everyday Life (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993), pp. 65-69;
14. Friedrich Kratochwil, Rules, Norms, and Decisions (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989), pp. 40-42.
15. Shotter, Cultural Politics, pp. 170-171.
16. Erik Ringmar, Identity, Interests, and Action (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996);
17. Patrick Thaddeus Jackson and Daniel H. Nexon, ‘Relations Before States: Substance, Process, and the Study of World Politics’, European Journal of International Relations, 5:3 (1999), pp. 313-317.
18. Shotter, Conversational Realities, pp. 73-74;
19. Talcott Parsons, ‘The Present Position and Prospects of Systematic Theory in Sociology’, in Essays in Sociological Theory (New York: Free Press, 1954), p. 216.
20. Wendt, Social Theory, p. 185, emphasis in original.
21. Adler, ‘Seizing the Middle Ground’, pp. 333-334.
22. Patrick Thaddeus Jackson, ‘Defending the West: Occidentalism and the Formation of NATO', Journal of Political Philosophy, 11:3 (2003), pp. 237-238.
23. Roxanne Lynn Doty, ‘Aporia: A Critical Exploration of the Agent-Structure Problematique in International Relations Theory’, European Journal of International Relations, 3:3 (1997), pp. 376-379.
24. Mark Laffey and Jutta Weldes, ‘Beyond Belief: Ideas and Symbolic Technologies in the Study of International Relations’, European Journal of International Relations, 3:2 (1997), pp. 202-203.
25. William H. Sewell, ‘A Theory of Structure: Duality, Agency, and Transformation’, American Journal of Sociology, 98:1 (1992), pp. 17-19.
26. Iver Neumann, Uses of the Other (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1999), pp. 33-35.
27. Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, eds. Richard Flathman and David Johnston (New York: W. W. Norton, 1997 [1651]), pp. 89-91.
28. See also Quentin Skinner, Visions of Politics: Hobbes and Civil Science (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), especially ch. 5.
29. Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, revised edn. (London: Verso, 1991), pp. 55-58.
30. On ‘yoking’, see Andrew Abbott, ‘Things of Boundaries’, Social Research, 62 (1995), pp. 871-872.
31. A consistent constructionist account does need to go beyond Anderson in one crucial aspect, emphasising that the process of articulating a national identity never ceases, and that the same dynamics present at the birth of the notion of nationalism or of any particular national actor continue throughout the period of its existence. This fact was graphically illustrated by the trajectory of national notions in Eastern Europe after the Cold War. See Rogers Brubaker, Nationalism Reframed (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996).
32. I have tried to address some of these in Patrick Thaddeus Jackson, ‘The West is the Best: Occidentalism and Postwar German Reconstruction’, in Daniel M. Green (ed.), Constructivism and Comparative Politics (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe Press, 2002), pp. 230-264.