Abstract
ABSTRACT This essay identifies a shared problem in articles on space and intellectual history: the tension between representations of spaces of political community and spatial renderings of authority. A wide variety of imagined political communities feature in these studies: nation-states, empires, communes, confederations, regions, and disconnected global sites linked by political trajectories. The essay turns next to the problem of authority, including the challenges of analyzing disaggregated authority inside political communities, tracing the projection of authority beyond the boundaries of political communities, and reconciling movement with territorially based authority. Illustrations from the articles support the argument that the spatial relation of authority and political community will remain a key analytical lens for future research on space and political thought.
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