Artificial Horizons
Artificial Horizons
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2283448 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Oliver Kessler (0000-0002-2159-9804, Kyung Hee University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 87-91 |
| Publication date | 2011-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Political Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1749-5679 • E-ISSN: 1749-5687 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1749-5687.2011.00122_2.x |
| OpenAlex | W2328213802 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 6 |
Post-positivist approaches certainly do not lack appetite for various twists and turns on how to theorize processes, flows, and structures in and of IR. The first question that comes to mind is then whether phenomenology constitutes yet another turn? Overall, under the heading of phenomenology, we find some of the most illustrious and influential thinkers of the last century and it certainly belongs to one of the most important intellectual movements of the nineteenth century as well. Its influence on existentialism, deconstructive and post-structuralist thought, sociology, psychology, and general social theory are well documented—even if most of the themes and influences are less known under the heading of phenomenology itself. However, its success came with a price: the question of what phenomenology actually “is” is almost impossible to answer. Maybe more than any other literature, phenomenology is spilt into utterly different strands and takes on different meanings in these different contexts with no hope whatsoever to find a common “working definition” adequate to represent the phenomenological literature in its entirety. So, for those who fear another turn on the horizon, the good news is that eventually phenomenology cannot constitute another turn in IR theory. The question about phenomenology is not about building up a coherent literary canon. Rather, phenomenology is an attitude to go about things: to ask certain questions, see and understand phenomena and relate concepts to reality in certain ways. And this attitude is shared among different disciplines, fraternities, and periods loosely related under this heading
Epistemology · Existentialism · Positivism · Sociology · Ecology, Conservation, and Geographical Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Philosophy · Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,21 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2015 (4) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |