{"product_id":"imagining-world-order-9781501716911","title":"Imagining World Order","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn early modern Europe, international law emerged as a means of governing relations between rapidly consolidating sovereign states, purporting to establish a normative order for the perilous international world. However, it was intrinsically fragile and uncertain, for sovereign states had no acknowledged common authority that would create, change, apply, and enforce legal norms. In \u003ci\u003eImagining World Order\u003c\/i\u003e, Chenxi Tang shows that international world order was as much a literary as a legal matter. To begin with, the poetic imagination contributed to the making of international law. As the discourse of international law coalesced, literary works from romances and tragedies to novels responded to its unfulfilled ambitions and inexorable failures, occasionally affirming it, often contesting it, always uncovering its problems and rehearsing imaginary solutions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTang highlights the various modes in which literary textssome highly canonical (Camões, Shakespeare, Corneille, Lohens\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdding to the growing body of work on law and literature, Tang (German, Univ. of California, Berkeley) offers a solid overview of the emergence and evolution of international law, and he argues plausibly that, lacking a supranational enforcement mechanism, international law depended on the poetic imagination to create an idea of world order.\u003c\/p\u003e * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e International Law\u003cbr\u003e Literary Approaches to International World Order\u003cbr\u003e A Dual History of International Law and European Literature\u003cbr\u003e 1. \u003cb\u003eThe Old World Order Dissolving\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Universal Laws in Flux: (Neoscholastic Jurisprudence)\u003cbr\u003e Cosmic Order Disturbed: (Camões's \u003ci\u003eOs Lusíadas,\u003c\/i\u003e Reason of State)\u003cbr\u003e The Beginnings of Public International Law: (Gentili, Suárez, Grotius)\u003cbr\u003e 2. \u003cb\u003eThe Poetics of International Legal Order\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Treaty and Allegory in the Renaissance\u003cbr\u003e The Founding Narratives of International Legal Personality: (Grotius, Hobbes, Leibniz)\u003cbr\u003e The Founding Narratives of International Society: (Grotius, Leibniz)\u003cbr\u003e Spectacles of International Order\u003cbr\u003e The Drama of International Society\u003cbr\u003e 3. \u003cb\u003eInternational Order as Tragedy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Renaissance of Tragedy and the Problem of International Order\u003cbr\u003e The Sovereign Will and the Tragic Form: (Marlowe's \u003ci\u003eTamburlaine\u003c\/i\u003e, Shakespeare's \u003ci\u003eKing John\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e A Tragicomic Intermezzo: The Shapes of World Order in Shakespeare's Romances\u003cbr\u003e The Tragedy of Reason of State: (Lohenstein)\u003cbr\u003e The Tragedy of Marriage Alliance: (Corneille)\u003cbr\u003e International Order Through Tragic Experience\u003cbr\u003e 4. \u003cb\u003eInternational Order as Romance\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Romance Form and World Order: (The Greek Romance, Barclay's \u003ci\u003eArgenis\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e The Crisis of Political Romance in the Mid-Seventeenth Century: (Herbert)\u003cbr\u003e The Apotheosis and Extinction of Political Romance: (Anton Ulrich, Leibniz)\u003cbr\u003e 5. \u003cb\u003eThe Divergence Between International Law and Literature around 1700\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Depersonalization of the State: (Gryphius, Milton)\u003cbr\u003e The Birth of the Private Individual: (Milton, Racine)\u003cbr\u003e International Law as a Field of Expert Knowledge\u003cbr\u003e Literature and the Private Individual\u003cbr\u003e 6. \u003cb\u003eThe Novel and International Order in the Eighteenth Century\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Fictional Construction of Society: \u003ci\u003eIus Naturae et Gentium\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Fictional Construction of Society: Poetics of the Novel\u003cbr\u003e Transnational Commercial World Order: (Defoe)\u003cbr\u003e Sentimental World Order: (Gellert, Sterne)\u003cbr\u003e Cosmopolitan World Order: (Wieland, Goethe, Kant)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eEpilogue\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNotes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eReferences\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409329201495,"sku":"9781501716911","price":47.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781501716911.jpg?v=1730506440","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/imagining-world-order-9781501716911","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}