Sovereignty and the limits of the liberal imagination

• Main Author: Nelson, Scott G.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2010.
• Subjects: Sovereignty > History.; Liberalism > History.; Enlightenment.; Liberalism.; Sovereignty.; POLITICAL SCIENCE > General. > Government; POLITICAL SCIENCE > National. > Government; POLITICAL SCIENCE > Reference.; POLITICAL SCIENCE > Essays.; Electronic books.
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This is a study of the concept of sovereignty in the modern epoch. For too long modern political theory has assumed the subject; it has also assumed the state. This book asks how each are effected in history through liberal-Enlightenment ethical and political affirmations which anchor themselves in...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: sovereignty, liberalism, imagination
• Liberalism, enlightenment, and the ethos of modernity
• Political liberalism and international relations
• Critical Enlightenment: the liberalism of Immanuel Kant
• Political economy and valorization: Hume, Smith, Ricardo, and James and J.S. Mill
• Sovereignty as political imperative
• Conclusion.