黃微子. / "2007年9月". / 論文(哲學碩士)--香港中文大學, 2007. / 參考文獻(leaves 93-99). / "2007 nian 9 yue". / Abstract also in English. / Huang Weizi. / Lun wen (zhe xue shuo shi)--Xianggang Zhong wen da xue, 2007. / Can kao wen xian (leaves 93-99). / Chapter 第一章 --- 香港想像和主流意識形態 --- p.1 / Chapter 第一節 --- 香港想像的蹤跡 --- p.1 / Chapter 第二節 --- 主流意識形態的主體 --- p.7 / Chapter 第三節 --- 《香港風情》的“風情´ح --- p.12 / Chapter 第四節 --- 合法化香港和現代化大陸 --- p.16 / Chapter 第二章 --- 天堂的光和地洞的火 --- p.20 / Chapter 第一節 --- “浮出歷史地表´ح --- p.20 / Chapter 第二節 --- 天堂般的燈火 --- p.24 / Chapter 第三節 --- 地洞中的墮落 --- p.30 / Chapter 第四節 --- 曖昧的光影交疊 --- p.36 / Chapter 第三章 --- 學習現代和重置傳統 --- p.42 / Chapter 第一節 --- 學習現代 --- p.42 / Chapter 第二節 --- 重置傳統 --- p.48 / Chapter 第三節 --- “不爭論´ح與整合 --- p.53 / Chapter 第四章 --- 觀看、移情和越界追逐 --- p.60 / Chapter 第一節 --- 觀看、移情 --- p.60 / Chapter 第二節 --- 越界追逐 --- p.65 / Chapter 第三節 --- “香港化´ح與“中華性´ح --- p.71 / Chapter 第五章 --- 從預言到跨越 --- p.78 / Chapter 第一節 --- 書寫與建構 --- p.78 / Chapter 第二節 --- 呈現與遮蔽 --- p.83 / Chapter 第三節 --- 從1997到2007 --- p.85 / 參考文獻 --- p.93

It is now taken for granted that the globe is divided into mutually exclusive territories, each of which belong to a particular community. To be a political community, it is thought, means to have sole possession of a piece of the Earth’s surface and to have complete authority over that land. Yet the history of political thought has little to tell us about when and how this conception arose. I argue that the first complete statement of this doctrine of the territorial state emerged with Emer de Vattel’s The Law of Nations in 1758. Vattel’s doctrine synthesized three ideas which had been developing in the genres of natural law and the law of nations since the Peace of Westphalia: the state was supreme over its territory; it possessed independent moral personality; and it was tied to a permanent human community. This dissertation recovers the ideological resources of territorial state formation by tracing the philosophical roots of these ideas in Samuel von Pufendorf, John Locke, and Christian Wolff. I argue that although Vattel’s doctrine would appear as an ideal type, it was in fact provincially rooted in the narrow context of former dynastic fiefdoms in the Holy Roman Empire. I reach this conclusion through a spatial contextualist method of reading canonical texts in the natural law and law of nations traditions. I find that the shared linguistic practices that emerged to conceptualize and defend territorial states often relied upon assuming preexisting communities who laid claim to the land as their ‘native country.’