ABSTRACT
The rationalist–reflectivist theorizations in Eurocentric IR have stimulated dichotomized projections of the notions of ‘time’ and ‘space’: while time is supposed to hold either ‘linear’ or ‘non-linear’ character; the considerations on space oscillate between ‘spatial fetishism’ (space as material) and ‘spatial exorcism’ (space as discourse). This chapter meticulously discloses that these dichotomized projections of temporality and spatiality in Eurocentric IR are indeed the corollaries of the Kantian antinomies that narrowly declare the ‘subjectivity’ of time and space (wherein time and space are taken as subjective forms for arranging and ordering mind-based human intuitions) in the phenomenal world. By contrast, the chapter unfolds that the monist perspective of Advaita makes a rational case for the ‘objectivity’ of time and space that uniformly encompasses both the phenomenal and noumenal worlds: as such, the monist perspective of Advaita brings back the missing connectedness between the ‘subjective-phenomenal’ and ‘objective-noumenal’ temporal–spatial realities of international politics, thereby encouraging a thorough reconfiguration of the notions of temporality and spatiality in IR theory.
