Empire as a subject for philosophy (polis, imperium, cosmopolis)

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buir.contributor.authorAlexander, James
dc.citation.epage270en_US
dc.citation.issueNumber2en_US
dc.citation.spage243en_US
dc.citation.volumeNumber94en_US
dc.contributor.authorAlexander, Jamesen_US
dc.date.accessioned2020-02-06T13:35:19Z
dc.date.available2020-02-06T13:35:19Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.departmentDepartment of Political Science and Public Administrationen_US
dc.description.abstractIn order to consider the question of whether empire is a subject for philosophy, I do three things. I sketch an original typology of three types of state, which I call polis, imperium and cosmopolis, in order to show that the second is an important philosophical conception which lies behind the terminology of empire and imperialism. I also consider modern theories of empire and imperialism in order to indicate some of their limitations as theories. And finally I indicate that it is important even for philosophers to recognise that all imperial terminology emerges out of a very complicated history in which the concept of imperium has been extended and distorted in meaning, so that, at best, any good theory of empire or imperialism can only be some sort of recapitulation of that history. Neither the second nor the third of these claims undermines the claim of imperium to be a concept of the state which is of great political and philosophical significance.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1017/S0031819119000020en_US
dc.identifier.issn0031-8191
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11693/53146
dc.language.isoEnglishen_US
dc.publisherCambridge University Pressen_US
dc.relation.isversionofhttps://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0031819119000020en_US
dc.source.titlePhilosophyen_US
dc.subjectPolisen_US
dc.subjectImperiumen_US
dc.subjectCosmopolisen_US
dc.subjectModern theories of empireen_US
dc.subjectModern theories of imperialismen_US
dc.titleEmpire as a subject for philosophy (polis, imperium, cosmopolis)en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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