Antropofagia i stosunki międzynarodowe. Fabrykacja kanibalizmu i anarchiczności
Anthropophagy and International Relations. Fabrication of cannibalism and anarchy

Summary/Abstract: The author of the article formulates a thesis about the analogy and discursive relations between anthropophagy as well as fabrication of anarchy and study of international relations and fabrication of anarchy as the essence of internationalism. Referring to William Arens’s thesis about the necessity to consider anthropophagy as a discursive practice in relations between communities and on the basis of chosen travel stories, the article presents the causes of cannibalism and its fabrication methods as the justification of conquest, colonialism, proselytism and extermination practices. Similarly, referring to the analysis of political philosophy of T. Hobbes, the author shows the lack of legitimacy in its use to formulate the thesis about anarchy of international relations as the most important rule according to which they are organized. A thesis is formulated that fabrication of anarchy as the essence of internationalism was the product of political science, study of international relations and international law born at the turn of 20th century. Eventually, just as the discourse on cannibalism is hard to erase, it is equally difficult to remove from the study of international relations the thesis about their anarchy which defines national identities through reference to the „other”. As a result, the foundations of foreign policies are still created by fabrication of the „others” which stem from the anarchy discourse.

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