The scandal of enlightenment and the birth of disciplines: Is international law a science?

Singh, Prabhakar (2010) The scandal of enlightenment and the birth of disciplines: Is international law a science? International Community Law Review, 12 (1). pp. 5-34. ISSN 18719732

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Abstract

Today's mainstream international law scholarship (MILS) is concerned primarily with the issue of its scientificity. This brings us to the larger epistemological questions of linear modernity, narratives of circular progress, role of colonisation and rejection of pre-science. International law is not a self-contained regime as it draws insights from all the other disciplines that were born after the Enlightenment. This article makes a psychological investigation using Nandy's psycho-political framework under the third world approaches to international law (TWAIL). It also sees, as a case in point, the invasion of modernity via late capitalism into tribal life as modernity's apology for the "third" disenchantment. International Law's evolutionary scientificity, therefore, has been examined through psychology and mythology in the post-colonial world.

Item Type: Article
Keywords: Anti-modernism | Colonisation | Emotive and psychological aspect of pil | Enlightenment
Subjects: Social Sciences and humanities > Social Sciences > International Relations
Social Sciences and humanities > Social Sciences > Law and Legal Studies
JGU School/Centre: Jindal Global Law School
Depositing User: Mr Sombir Dahiya
Date Deposited: 11 Mar 2022 06:32
Last Modified: 09 Apr 2022 07:11
Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1163/187197410X12631788215792
URI: https://pure.jgu.edu.in/id/eprint/1555

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