Diasporas and political obligation

Baron, Ilan Zvi

Diasporas and political obligation

Baron, Ilan Zvi

Authors

Professor Ilan Baron ilan.baron@durham.ac.uk
Professor

Contributors

Robin Cohen
Editor

Carolin Fischer
Editor

Abstract

In an essay on the state of political theory, Isaiah Berlin (1969: 7) suggests that ‘the most fundamental of all political questions’ is ‘why should anyone obey anyone else?’ Similarly, A. P. d’Entrèves (1959: 3) claims that ‘the history of political theory is to me first and foremost the history of the attempts to solve the problem of political obligation’. The problem of political obligation has been called ‘the fundamental or central problem of political philosophy’ (Dagger 1977: 86). John Horton (2010: 1–2), in his introductory book about political obligation, defines it as the relationship ‘between the people and their political community’ and ‘about whether we can properly be understood to have some ethical bond with our polity, and if so how this manifests itself’.

Citation

Baron, I. Z. (2018). Diasporas and political obligation. In R. Cohen, & C. Fischer (Eds.), Routledge handbook of diaspora studies (223-230). Routledge

Online Publication Date	Aug 8, 2018
Publication Date	Aug 8, 2018
Deposit Date	Sep 14, 2018
Publicly Available Date	Feb 8, 2020
Publisher	Routledge
Pages	223-230
Series Title	Routledge international handbooks
Book Title	Routledge handbook of diaspora studies.
Chapter Number	26
ISBN	9781138631137
Publisher URL	https://www.routledge.com/9781138631137

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This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in Routledge Handbook of Diaspora Studies on 08 Aug 2018, available online: http://www.routledge.com/9781138631137