I just read “A Constructivist Take on the Strait” by Max Tsung-Chi Yu. The information on Taiwanese internal politics with regard to China and of the various nations’ stances towards growing Chinese power was interesting and informative. What I disliked was the explicitly intersubjective analysis of the “One China, different interpretations” declaration. Intersubjectivity and notions of mutually constructed non-objective reality are intrinsically phenomenological nonsense, thus irretrivably corrupting any theory thence derived. (And despite the superficially warm and fuzzy happy hippie overtones in which phenomenology and its offspring postmodernism and constructivism usually present today, let’s not forget where it came from and what it was invented to support, and what it could easily be turned to again in the future, with very little if any theoretical modification from its present form.) Continue Reading »
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