1st Edition

Sovereignty and the Limits of the Liberal Imagination

By Scott G Nelson Copyright 2010
194 Pages
by Routledge

206 Pages
by Routledge

206 Pages
by Routledge

This volume examines and critiques several of the classical theoretical foundations of domestic and international organization, concentrating on the contestable conceptions of community, order, justice, freedom, responsibility and wealth developed by the major political theorists of the modern epoch. Nelson argues that the accepted discourses of world politics are constructed by way of... Read more

1. Modernity, Liberalism And Enlightenment  2. Political Liberalism And International Relations  3. Critical Enlightenment: The Liberalism Of Immanuel Kant  4. Political Economy And Valorization: Hume, Smith, Ricardo And J. S. Mill  5. Sovereignty As Political Imperative

Biography

Scott G. Nelson is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, where he teaches international relations and political theory.