| Description |
1 online resource (x, 215 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
A conceptual history of world community -- Paradoxes of world community -- In the beginning was the world -- Nationalizing community -- Reinventing mankind -- Globalizing community -- Community unbound? |
| Summary |
"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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Multiculturalism.
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Multiculturalism. |
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Communities.
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Communities. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Bartelson, Jens. Visions of world community. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009 9780521760096 (DLC) 2009031859 (OCoLC)318870749 |
| ISBN |
9780511641756 (electronic book) |
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0511641753 (electronic book) |
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9780521760096 (hardback) |
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0521760097 (hardback) |
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9780521756679 (paperback) |
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0521756677 (paperback) |
| Standard No. |
9786612386619 |
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