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Whether or not some, or all, of these contingent factors can be eliminated misses the point that it is the existence of different kinds of intellectual activity, as much as different modes of social organization, that ensures the permanent existence of different human values and interests. At the risk of oversimplification (but for the sake of expediency) this book reduces this epistemologically based division to a basic idealist-realist antinomy that virtually every IR textbook observes, but manages to get wrong.
And, to consider one of the more famous episodes in his history, the “Melian Dialogue,” why ought the “Realist” principles of the Athenian generals to be treated as more timelessly compelling than the equally persistent, albeit disastrous, idealism of the Melians (Thucydides 1954, 400–8)? As Garst suggests, Karl Marx’s depiction of revisionist historical argument as self-serving ideology applies nicely here: The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.
I]n an equal and opposite reaction, essentialists and deconstructionists express mutual disdain rather than respect for their differences. And so they create two mutually exclusive and disrespecting cultures in academic life, evincing an attitude of unwillingness to learn anything from the other or recognize any value in the other. (Gutmann 1994, 21) Why, however, has the shock wave of deconstructionism rattled IR with peculiar force and energy? Part of the answer resides in the nature of the subject matter.