Visions of world community
By: Jens Bartelson.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
ISBN-13: 9780521760096; 9780521756679
Subjects: Multiculturalism; Communities
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"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A conceptual history of world community; title: Paradoxes of world community; title: In the beginning was the world; title: Nationalizing community; title: Reinventing mankind; title: Globalizing community; title: Community unbound?