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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      18 January 2010
      01 October 2009
      ISBN:
      9780511642296
      9780521760096
      9780521756679
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511642296
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.49kg, 226 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.38kg, 226 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Political Theory, Politics and International Relations, International Relations and International Organisations
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    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.

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    ‘This imaginative and erudite analysis of changing relationships between society, humanity and the cosmos provides fresh insights into the tensions between universalistic and particularistic visions of community - and a distinctive angle on how they might yet be resolved.’

    Andrew Linklater - Woodrow Wilson Professor of International Politics, Aberystwyth University

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