Visions of World Community

Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-0-521-76009-6
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 226 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 485 g

Throughout the history of Western political thought, the creation of a world community has been seen as a way of overcoming discord between political communities without imposing sovereign authority from above. Jens Bartelson argues that a paradox lies at the centre of discussions of world community. The very same division of mankind into distinct peoples living in different places which makes the idea of a world community morally compelling has also been the main obstacle to its successful realization. His book offers a philosophical and historical analysis of the idea of world community by exploring the relationship between theories of world community and changing cosmological beliefs from the late Middle Ages to the present.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bartelson, Jens

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Current Affairs

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. A conceptual history of world community; 2. Paradoxes of world community; 3. In the beginning was the world; 4. Nationalizing community; 5. Reinventing mankind; 6. Globalizing community; 7. Community unbound?

Über Autor(innen)

Bartelson, Jens
Jens Bartelson is Professor of Political Science in the Department of Political Science at Lund University. He is the author of The Critique of the State (Cambridge, 2001) and A Genealogy of Sovereignty (Cambridge, 1995).