1st Edition

Political Pluralism and the State Beyond Sovereignty

By Marcel Wissenburg Copyright 2009
240 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

240 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

240 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The concept of a sovereign nation-state is a central part in many of the debates discussing the salient issues in political science today. Yet the debate on the state is fragmented and while the sub-disciplines within political science address the various possible consequences of different processes, the one thing they all share is uncertainty about the future shape and role of the state.... Read more

1. Introduction  2. Political Pluralization  3. The Need to Interfere  4. Principles, Discord and Concord  5. Sustainability as a Policy Telos  6. Beyond Political Principles  7. Alexandrism  8. The New Polis  9. Citizenship in the Metropolis  10. The Princes of Industry  11. Harmony and Political Pluralization 

Biography

Marcel Wissenburg is Professor of Political Theory at the Radboud University Nijmegen and Socrates Professor of Humanist Philosophy at Wageningen University, the Netherlands.