The fable of the world a philosophical inquiry into freedom in our times
Modern political theory begins with the rise of the new state in the sixteenth century and both are mutually imbricated around the concept and practice of sovereignty. In the course of the next centuries, sovereignty is generalized as the form of the modern state: eventually, there is no state which...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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London u.a.
Seagull Books
2010
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| Schriftenreihe: | The French list
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Modern political theory begins with the rise of the new state in the sixteenth century and both are mutually imbricated around the concept and practice of sovereignty. In the course of the next centuries, sovereignty is generalized as the form of the modern state: eventually, there is no state which is not sovereign, and there is no understanding of the state which does not depend upon the deployment of sovereignty. Yet, argues Gerard Mairet in this rigorous and timely book, just at this moment of the culmination of sovereignty, the limitations and dangers of this theory and practice have become apparent, as have the glimmers of a new form of political community beyond the sovereign state and its rootedness in inter-state violence. For Mairet, Europe, the begetter of the fable of the sovereign state as it consolidated its identity through territorial expansion, becomes the harbinger of a new federative form |
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| Beschreibung: | 346 S 20 cm |
| ISBN: | 1906497192 1-906497-19-2 9781906497194 978-1-906497-19-4 |