| Visions of World Community Contributor(s): Bartelson, Jens (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521756677 ISBN-13: 9780521756679 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $39.89 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2009 Annotation: A philosophical and historical analysis of the idea of world community from the late Middle Ages to the present. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | International Relations - General - Political Science | History & Theory - General - Philosophy | Social |
| Dewey: 305.8 |
| LCCN: 2009031859 |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6" W x 8.8" (0.85 lbs) 226 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): 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). |