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Beyond the hermeneutics of suspicion in the critique of humanitarian intervention

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 December 2016

Dimitrios E. Akrivoulis
Dimitrios E. Akrivoulis*
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Assistant Professor, Department of Balkan, Slavic, and Oriental Studies, University of Macedonia
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*Correspondence to: Dr Dimitrios E. Akrivoulis, Department of Balkan, Slavic, and Oriental Studies, University of Macedonia, Egnatias 156, 54636, Thessaloniki, Greece. Author’s email: [email protected]
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Abstract

Realist and Marxist critiques of humanitarian intervention are distinctively materialistic in scope. The IR literature has already described this scepticism as a ‘hermeneutics of suspicion’, a term associated with the work of Paul Ricoeur, which aims to unearth the intervenors’ material and geopolitical interests hypocritically hidden behind the pretext of humanitarianism. The article first notes the decontextualised misappropriations of the term as an iconic and omnipotent instrument of doubt, as well as the limitations of the social constructivist response on the matter. By contextualising Ricoeur’s hermeneutics of suspicion as developed in his life work, the article then calls for an extension of critique from a hermeneutics of suspicion to a hermeneutics of naïveté. Applied in the critique of the ideology of humanitarian intervention, the article thus calls for a shift of focus from the examination of the distorting (Marxism, realism) and legitimising (social constructivism) functions of this ideology to its integrating function that has allowed the evocation of humanitarian principles as international norms, and uncritically vindicates this arrangement. The article proposes that this hermeneutical detour could allow critique to proceed to a greater analytical depth, opening up a set of critical questions.

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Hermeneutics of SuspicionHermeneutics of NaïvetéPaul RicoeurMarxismRealismSocial ConstructivismHumanitarian Intervention
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Review of International Studies , Volume 43 , Issue 2 , April 2017 , pp. 240 - 259
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© British International Studies Association 2016 

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3 For reasons of economy, I will refer to these ideational variables as ‘the ideology of humanitarian intervention’.

4 The emphasis being on the materialistic critique of humanitarian intervention, this article will not discuss the liberal narrative that reads the historical development of international politics as the progressive development of ‘universal morality’. More often than not, liberalism visualises humanitarianism as an orange that has been gradually peeled until its inside grape is fully revealed. The deep resonance of the revelatory, almost messianic elements of this argument are hard to pass unnoticed, further reinforcing the naturalisation of this process as a gradual self-realisation of ‘humanity’. Paradoxically, this liberal narrative eventually conceals far more than what it promises to reveal. In a way, it is supressing and concealing even more than what the alleged ‘hermeneutics of suspicion’ of realism and Marxism has excluded from deliberation. Given the above, and although many ideational criticisms within liberalism emphasise the unilateral, materialistic, and selective scope of interventionist practices on purportedly humanitarian grounds, the liberal narrative on the matter needs separate, detailed examination within the scope herewith proposed.

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30 In the context of the present analysis, scepticism is referred to here as a philosophical position about truth. Whereas scepticism is doubt of ideas, suspicion is doubt of the motives of people, including one’s own. This conceptual clarification is necessary to avoid confusion, especially when scepticism is often used as a term in different analytical contexts as almost a synonym to suspicion.

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51 Examining how the English merchant class legitimised the accumulation of wealth at the turn of the sixteenth century, Skinner remarks that this particular class did not directly defend a new capitalist ethos. He supports that this capitalist practice kept pace with the principles of Protestantism, the dominant legitimising principles of the then society. Skinner, Quentin, ‘Some problems in the analysis of political thought and action’, Political Theory, 2:3 (1974), pp. 277–303 CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

52 Following Ricoeur’s analysis and treatment of ‘distortion’, my references to the term do not imply the pre-existence of a real, correct political structure that becomes ideologically dissimulated. Instead, political ‘reality’ is understood here in the light of Ricoeur’s reading of Marx’s German Ideology, where the real is equated with the actual and the material, as individuals are put together with their material conditions, the way they operate: ‘The social structure and the State are continually evolving out of the life-process of definite individuals, but of individuals, not as they may appear [erscheinen] in their own or other people’s imagination [Vorstellung], but as they really are [wirklich]; i.e. as they operate [wirken], produce materially, and hence as they work under definite material limits, presuppositions and conditions independent of their will.’ Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The German Ideology, Part I (New York: International Publishers, 1970), pp. 46–7. Thus, instead of using less charged terms like ‘deception’ or ‘closure’ to describe this ideological function, I adhere to Ricoeur’s reading of distortion, meaning the process in which the established political order is uncritically vindicated and the community’s symbols become ideologically fixed and fetishized. Paul Ricoeur, Hermeneutics and the Human Sciences: Essays on Language, Action, and Interpretation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981), p. 229.

53 The respective memoranda were submitted by Professors Ian Brownlie QC, Christine Chinkin, Christopher Greenwood QC, Vaughan Lowe and Mark Littman QC, and are all included in a special issue of International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 49:4 (2000).

54 The ideas of naïveté and ‘second naïveté’ are recurrent themes in the development of Ricoeur’s thought all through the span of his life work, starting even from his 1950 Le volontaire et l’involontaire and not from his 1969 La symbolique du mal, as often noted in the respective literature. See Ricoeur, Paul, Freedom and Nature: The Voluntary and the Involuntary (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1966), pp. 18 Google Scholar, 76, 83, 155.

55 The conceptual origin of the term as opposed to the hermeneutics of suspicion should be traced in Gabriel Marcel’s differentiation between ‘primary’ and ‘secondary reflection’, whose work has been a constant source of inspiration for Ricoeur. Paul Ricoeur, ‘Intellectual autobiography of Paul Ricoeur’, in Lewis Edwin Hahn (ed.), The Philosophy of Paul Ricoeur (Chicago: Open Court, 1995), p. 7.

56 This conceptual development most notably includes his: Le volontaire et l’involontaire (1950); Idées directrices pour une phénoménologie (1950); La symbolique du mal (1960); De l’interprétation: Essai sur Sigmund Freud (1965); L’homme faillible (1965); La métaphore vive (1975); Interpretation Theory (1976); Essays on Biblical Interpretation (1980); Temps et récit: Tome III (1985); Lectures on Ideology and Utopia (1986); Soi-même comme un autre (1990); and La mémoire, l’histoire, l’oubli (2000).

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67 Especially in the context of his ideology critique, Ricoeur has been in dialogue with and drawn from various approaches within Marxism and post-Marxism, such as the Frankfurt School and Althusser. By addressing Ricoeur’s hermeneutics as ‘critical’ the article does not propose, of course, a new reading of Ricoeur as a post-Marxist philosopher. It implies instead that although drawing from the hermeneutic tradition, Ricoeur’s hermeneutics seeks to extend its boundaries by addressing the crucial dimensions of power and the ideological deformation of language use.

68 This detour is often described by theological studies as an ‘arc’ because, evidently, it has to return and reaffirm the initial conviction of faith in the reading of the biblical text. Boyd Blundell, Paul Ricoeur between Theology and Philosophy: Detour and Return (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2010), pp. 81, 106. See also the excellent Wallace, Mark I., The Second Naïveté: Barth, Ricoeur, and the New Yale Theology (Macon: Mercer, 1995)Google Scholar.

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79 Similar is the position on this point of normative theory. Molly Cochran, Normative Theory in International Relations: A Pragmatic Approach (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999).

80 Wheeler, Saving Strangers, p. 4, emphasis in original.

81 Ibid.

82 Skinner, ‘Some problems in the analysis of political thought and action’, p. 299.

83 Ricoeur’s approach starts, therefore, from Karl Mannheim’s ‘sociology of knowledge’ as an alternative critique of ideology. However, Ricoeur departs from Mannheim’s claim that ideology constitutes merely a deviation from reality. Ricoeur, Lectures on Ideology and Utopia, pp. xiii, 172–3. I concur with Terry Eagleton that the ideological function of Mannheim’s thesis is to ‘to defuse the whole Marxist conception of ideology, replacing it with the less embattled, contentious conception of a “world view”’. Terry Eagleton, Ideology: An Introduction (London: Verso, 1991), p. 109. Indeed, such a reading of ideology may repress the Marxist class-related connotations of the concept. It might be also the case that, as Eagleton again has noted, the drift of Mannheim’s work comes to downplay concepts of mystification, rationalisation, legitimation, and the power-function of ideas ‘in the name of some synoptic survey of the evolution of forms of historical consciousness’, thus returning ideology to its pre-Marxist conceptualisation. Terry Eagleton, ‘Ideology and its vicissitudes’, in Slavoj Žižek (ed.), Mapping Ideology (London: Verso, 1994), p. 194. Yet, this could hardly be the case with Ricoeur’s own account due to the centrality not only of the distorting but also of the rationalising, legitimating, power-related, and mystificatory manifestations of ideology in his analysis.

84 Ricoeur, Lectures on Ideology and Utopia, p. 136.

85 Ibid., p. 10.

86 Ibid., p. 266.

87 Akrivoulis, Dimitrios E., ‘Metaphors matter: the ideological functions of the Kosovo-Holocaust analogy’, Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, 17:2 (2015), pp. 222–242 CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

88 Ricoeur, Hermeneutics and the Human Sciences, p. 229.

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