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Preface
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Introduction: the existence of universality
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The question of world politics
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Why there is no theory of world politics
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Towards an ontology of world politics
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From the void to the universal
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PART I
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The World and worlds
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Three concepts of the world
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The constitutive ambivalence of world politics
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The world as everything
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The world as something
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The world as nothing
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The universality of the void
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2
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Politics: bringing the World into worlds
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Politics beyond the (inter)national
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Nihilism
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Metapolitics
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Putting the World back in
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Schmitt’s concept of the political: the partition of the void
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Rancière’s concept of politics: equality and the spectre of ontology
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PART II
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What is world politics?
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3
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Three axioms of politics
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Being-in-the-World: the ontological mood
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Community, equality, freedom
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Universality and historicity
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Community without fraternity
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For all: universalism beyond anthropocentrism
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4
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The typology of political invariants
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Politics and its negations
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Seven forms of politics
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World politics: libertarianism, egalitarianism, communitarianism
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The new world: the subsumption of universality
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The three nothings: void, world, sovereignty
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Bibliography
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Index
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