Sovereignty and the limits of the liberal imagination [

A study of the concept of sovereignty in the modern epoch. It asks how each are effected in history through liberal-Enlightenment ethical and political affirmations which anchor themselves in a unique metaphysics of statecraft

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nelson, Scott G. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London;New York : Routledge , c2009
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Online Access:NetLibrary
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: sovereignty, liberalism, imagination
  • 2. Liberalism, enlightenment, and the ethos of modernity
  • 3. Political liberalism and international relations
  • 4. Critical Enlightenment: the liberalism of Immanuel Kant
  • 5. Political economy and valorizat: Hume, Smith, Ricardo, and James and J. S. Mill
  • 6. Sovereignty as political imperative
  • 7. Conclusion