AT THE ORIGINS OF POLITICS
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INTRODUCTION (Preface)
METHOD AND CONTEXT
(Preamble)
Part I
1. The Establishment of Society
2. The Invention of Territory
3. Control over Nature
4. The Reification of the Word
Part II
5. The Outlet into History
6. The Nuclear Territorial States
7. The Expanded Territorial States
8. Impulses Beyond the Territorial Base
Part III
9. A Jump in Quality: Empire
10. The Invention of Rivers
11. The Invention of the Steppe
12. A Premature Experiment
Part IV
13. 'Mesopotamia' and Its Regions
14. Hegemony and Balances
15. Political Strategies
16. Alternatives to the Territorial State
Part V
17. International Equilibrium
18. The Two Lands of the Four Banks
19. Local Autonomies
20. New Modalities
Part VI
21. Universe of Cities > Universal Cities
22. The Restructuring of the Parts
23. Imperial Ideology
24. The Consolidation of the Epigones
CONCLUSION
25. The State As It Unfolds
26. The Encounter
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Notes to Chapter 23. Imperial Ideology
Giorgio Buccellati
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23.1 Universalism
23.2 War as a System
23.3 The Vertex of the Design and Its Interlocutors
23.4 The Invention of the World
23.5 The Empire as a Political Concept