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