Global Challenges for Leviathan A Political

The sovereign state created at the onset of modernity can no longer protect us nor future generations from nuclear war and the effects of global warming. Politics now has to cope with the survival of humankind, not just ensure the security of individual nations. Will it fail or succeed? Far from touting easy solutions, this book provides food for thought about the future of state and politics and the meaning of our relationship with posterity.

Furio Corutti is professor of political philosophy at the University of Florence.

Preface	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Definitions, Delimitations, and a Road Map
A Problematic Catalogue
The Two Present Global Challenges
The Original Global Challenge: Nuclear Weapons
Extinction?
Global Challenges and Globalization
The Rise and Fall of Modern Political Rationality	p. 23
Risk or Challenge?	p. 27
Are Global Challenges Risks?
Humankind and Risk
The Rationality of Modern Political Order	p. 35
Political Security
The Hobbesian Moment
Anarchy, Sovereignty, Space, and War
Fear, Institutions, and International Society
International Law
Rationality, One or Two?
The End of Political Modernity	p. 67
Total War and Genocide
Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Deterrence
The Collapse of the Rational Institutions
The Roots of the Process
The Nuclear Security Dilemma and its Consequences on Rationality
Politics and Technology
The Challenge of Global Warming	p. 105
How Global is Man-Made Climate Change?
A Complex Action Pattern
Political Uncertainties
Failures of Modern Politics
Science, State, and Nature in Modernity
Philosophical and Political Perspectives	p. 131
We, the Future Generations, and Humankind	p. 133
How Global Challenges Can Affect Future Generations
Normative Approaches
Patterns of Obligation
Humankind under Man-made Global Threats
Meaning and History under Global Threats	p. 161
The Meaning of Human Life under Global Threats
Post-Modernity is not Postmodern
The Roots of Global Challenges in Modern Science and Technology
The Politics of Global Challenges	p. 183
Beyond Realism and Normativism
Neither Empire nor Cosmopolis
Two Versions of Obsolete Statism
Signs of Change
Policy Recommendations and the Limits of Philosophy
Works Cited	p. 215
Index	p. 229
About the Author	p. 245
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Global Challenges for Leviathan A Political Philosophy of Nuclear Weapons and Global Warming

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