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Empire and insurgency: the politics of truth in Alexander Wendt's Quantum Mind and Social Science: Unifying Physical and Social Ontology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 February 2022

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Kimberly Hutchings*
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School of Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary University London, London, UK
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Abstract

I argue that the dangers inherent in Wendt's project are not that it radically undermines the project of social science as it currently exists, in positivist or interpretivist forms, but rather that it reinforces the will to knowledge that has powered the development of the social and human sciences since the late 19th century. The ultimate significance of Wendt's argument is not ontological or epistemic but political.

Keywords

International relationsmethodologyquantumsocial sciencetheory
Type
Book Symposium: Alexander Wendt, Quantum Mind and Social Science: Unifying Physical and Social Ontology
Information
International Theory , Volume 14 , Issue 1 , March 2022 , pp. 183 - 192
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press

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