Examines how the imagination of space in the early modern period influenced the development of the modern concept of political universalismOffers a history and genealogy of the concept of space in the European philosophical traditionPresents the political effects of the modern cosmological transitio...

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1. Verfasser:	Bustinduy, Pablo (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press [2024]
Schriftenreihe:	Edinburgh Studies in Comparative Political Theory and Intellectual History
Schlagworte:	Politics HISTORY / Historiography Political science > Philosophy Space > Philosophy Space > Political aspects
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Zusammenfassung:	Examines how the imagination of space in the early modern period influenced the development of the modern concept of political universalismOffers a history and genealogy of the concept of space in the European philosophical traditionPresents the political effects of the modern cosmological transitionProvides a systematic critique of the Westphalian logic of the State as absolute, universal, autonomous, and uniqueGives an account of the developments and contradictions of abstract universalism, and its philosophical entanglement with the European colonial project and the nascent logic of capitalismDiscusses the emancipatory content of universalism and the philosophical causes and effects of its contemporary crisisHow did early modern philosophy of space shape the modern concept of political universalism? In this book, Pablo Bustinduy persuasively argues that political universalism emerged from both the developments of Newtonian science and the formulation of the modern philosophy of the State. In the metaphysics of an open, empty, abstract and absolute space, Bustinduy suggests, the universalist project of modern politics found its logical model and foundation. There, the anxiety of a dislocated world was overcome, and the ontology of modern physics found a specific political expression that, despite being besieged by multiple crises, still animates our political imagination.By offering a political reading of early modern philosophy of space, Space and Political Universalism in Early Modern Physics and Philosophy reveals the connections between the logical development of early modern science, the contemporary elaborations of the philosophy of the State, and the historical articulations of the Westphalian system, early capitalist social formations, and the European colonial project. In doing so, it offers a powerful reflection on how we might detach democracy from the 'perilous metaphysics' of infinite space that has engendered political violence and domination, positing space as an emptiness that prevents the closure of the political itself
Beschreibung:	Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Mrz 2024)
Beschreibung:	1 Online-Ressource (272 Seiten)
ISBN:	9781399527828
DOI:	10.1515/9781399527828