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Author:   Gideon Baker ,  Jens Bartelson (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.385kg
ISBN:  

9780415847872

ISBN 10:   0415847877
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   22 March 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction: The Future of Political Community Gideon Baker and Jens Bartelson Part 1: Assumptions of Political Community: Progress, Democracy and Boundaries in Question 1. Dream or Nightmare? Thinking the Future of World Politics Kimberly Hutchings 2. Globalising the Democratic Community Jens Bartelson 3. The Politics of Hospitality: Sovereignty and Ethics in Political Community Gideon Baker Part 2: Political Community and the Postmodern 4. Constituting Community: Heidegger, Mimesis and Critical Belonging Louiza Odysseos 5. What Future for the European Political Community? Nietzsche, Nationalism, and the Idea of the ‘Good Europeans’ Stefan Elbe 6. The Limits of Post-Territorial Political Community: From the Cosmopolitan Politics of Global Civil Society to the Biopolitics of the Multitude David Chandler Part 3: Learning from the Past and Understanding Future Transformations 7. Homer, Vergil and Identity in International Relations Richard Ned Lebow 8. Rethinking Political Community from Neglected Places Giuseppe Ballacci 9. Political Community Formation beyond the Nation-State Benjamin Herborth

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Jens Bartelson is Professor of Political Science, Lund University, Sweden. He is the author of A Genealogy of Sovereignty, Cambridge University Press (1995), and The Critique of the State, Cambridge University Press (2001). Gideon Baker is Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of Lancaster. He is the author of Civil Society and Democratic Theory: Alternative Voices, London, Routledge, (2002) and co-editor of Global Civil Society: Contested Futures, London, Routledge, (2005).

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