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The Fable of the World
Gerard Mairet
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Description for The Fable of the World
Hardcover. Including an investigation of the notion of sovereignty from Bodin and Hobbes, through Rousseau and the Federalists, to Foucault and the framers of the European constitution, this title examines the articulation of the concept through the bloody history of European colonialism. Translator(s): Derbyshire, Philip. Series: The French List. Num Pages: 282 pages. BIC Classification: JPA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 197 x 161 x 38. Weight in Grams: 636.
Modern political theory begins with the rise of the philosophical concept and practice of sovereignty in the sixteenth century. Over the course of the next several centuries, sovereignty was generalized as the form of the modern state - eventually, there was no state that was not sovereign, and there was no understanding of the state that did not depend upon the notion of sovereignty. Yet, as Gerard Mairet argues in "The Fable of the World", at this moment of the culmination of political sovereignty, the limitations and dangers of this theory and practice have become all too apparent. Furthermore, Mairet ... Read more
Modern political theory begins with the rise of the philosophical concept and practice of sovereignty in the sixteenth century. Over the course of the next several centuries, sovereignty was generalized as the form of the modern state - eventually, there was no state that was not sovereign, and there was no understanding of the state that did not depend upon the notion of sovereignty. Yet, as Gerard Mairet argues in "The Fable of the World", at this moment of the culmination of political sovereignty, the limitations and dangers of this theory and practice have become all too apparent. Furthermore, Mairet ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Seagull Books London Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
282
Condition
New
Series
The French List
Number of Pages
346
Place of Publication
Greenford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781906497194
SKU
V9781906497194
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About Gerard Mairet
Gerard Mairet is professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Paris VIII. His other publications include Of "The Leviathan" by Hobbes, The Principle of Sovereignty and Histories of the Modern Foundation, and The Master and the Multitude. Philip Derbyshire is an academic, researcher, and translator, and currently a British Academy post-doctoral research fellow at Birkbeck College, ... Read more
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