Analysis as ontology : reconstituting ASEAN scholarship
Writing political analysis is an ontological act: such analysis is intrinsically related to politics - by the nature of analysis as a form of historical agency. This realization is mostly lacking in the field of International Relations and in the analysis of ASEAN politics, informed by the discip...
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| Format: | Theses and Dissertations |
| Language: | English |
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2015
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10356/64887 |
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| Institution: | Nanyang Technological University |
| Language: | English |
| Summary: | Writing political analysis is an ontological act: such analysis is intrinsically related to
politics - by the nature of analysis as a form of historical agency. This realization is
mostly lacking in the field of International Relations and in the analysis of ASEAN
politics, informed by the discipline at-large. It results in analysis, presuming itself
autonomous from history, imposing its own ontologically arbitrary standards on
political reality, thus making itself irrelevant to the unfolding of politics.
By proposing a conceptualization of politics rooted in the holistic Hegelian
understanding of sociality as the being of all of history, this work argues, first, that the
analysis of ASEAN politics can be intrinsically relevant to the political practice if it is
sufficiently aware of its inextricable ontological connection with this practice, and,
second, by incorporating this awareness into its substance, analysis can take its place
as an essential agent in the sociality of ASEAN - a place granted to it by the ontology
of history. |
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