Visions of World Community (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521760096)

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.

Author: Jens Bartelson
ISBN-10: 0521760097
ISBN-13: 9780521760096
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2009
Pages: 226
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.10w x 0.60d