Visions of World Community

Jens Bartelson is Professor of Political Science in the Department of Political Science at Lund University. He is the author of The Critique of the State (Cambridge, 2001) and A Genealogy of Sovereignty (Cambridge, 1995).

• 1. A conceptual history of world community; 2. Paradoxes of world community; 3. In the beginning was the world; 4. Nationalizing community; 5. Reinventing mankind; 6. Globalizing community; 7. Community unbound?

'This imaginative and erudite analysis of changing relationships between society, humanity and the cosmos provides fresh insights into the tensions between universalistic and particularistic visions of community - and a distinctive angle on how they might yet be resolved.' Andrew Linklater, Woodrow Wilson Professor of International Politics, Aberystwyth University