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The responsibility to educate

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 October 2009

R. E. Jones
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Some years ago, in a joint affirmation of faith, Professor Walker identified himself as a ‘dissident’ producer of ‘works of thought’ at ‘margins’ distant from ‘all presumptive sovereign centres of interpretation and judgement’. From these remote sites, or heights, he and his critical colleagues aim to exacerbate ‘the crisis of the discipline of international studies’ by upsetting its ‘notions of space, time, and progress’ and thus questioning its status as a ‘discipline’ (pp. 375–6). This particular academic crisis must be understood as one among many others. It is made to connect with ‘a crisis of the human sciences, a crisis of patriarchy, a crisis of governability, a crisis of late industrial society, a generalized crisis of modernity’ (p. 377) to mention but a few. So enormous is this congeries of crises that the ‘possibility of truth is put in doubt’ (p. 378) and ‘words manifestly fail’ (p. 376). An academic without words is without a job. Critical dissidents are not at a loss.

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Review Article
Information
Review of International Studies , Volume 20 , Issue 3 , July 1994 , pp. 299 - 311
Copyright
Copyright © British International Studies Association 1994

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