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Visions of world community / Jens Bartelson

Bartelson, Jens [Verfasser]

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009

Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press

1 Online-Ressource (x, 215 pages)

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)

978-0-511-64229-6 ; 978-0-521-76009-6 ; 978-0-521-75667-9

MK 4050 MS 1090 MS 1170

 

Weltgesellschaft  Multikulturelle Gesellschaft  Ideengeschichte  Völkergemeinschaft  Globalisierung  Politische Philosophie  Ideengeschichte 

 

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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.