Beschreibung:
This volume takes a fresh approach to the issue of 'space' in intellectual history and puts forward novel ways of rendering conceptions of space useful for historians of political thought. This book was originally published as a special issue of Global Intellectual History.
Introduction: approaching space in intellectual history 1. The nation and property in Vattel's theory of territory 2. Kropotkin's commune and the politics of history 3. Space as gravitational field: the empire and the Atlantic in the political thought of Thomas Pownall 4. British imperialism and Southern liberalism: re-shaping the Mediterranean space, c. 1817-1823 5. Spaces on the temporal move: Weimar Geopolitik and the vision of an Indian science of the state, 1924-1945 6. Afterward: the space of political community and the space of authority