ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book demonstrates how the dualist knowledge-situation in Eurocentric IR is problematized via Advaita that explains three distinctive knowledge-situations that correspond to three levels of being: 'Reality' (brahman) as 'oneness of being', 'Appearance' (jagat) as 'multiplicity of being', and 'Unreality' (tuchchha) as 'non-being'. It initiates a monist reconsideration of temporality and spatiality in international politics: it does so, precisely because 'time' and 'space' are already recognized as the 'primary conceptual categories' in the theorization of international politics. The book meticulously discloses that the dualist identifications 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.
