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The Resource States of war : Enlightenment origins of the political, David William Bates
States of war : Enlightenment origins of the political, David William Bates
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- Summary
- We fear that the growing threat of violent attack has upset the balance between existential concepts of political power, which emphasize security, and traditional notions of constitutional limits meant to protect civil liberties. We worry that constitutional states cannot, during a time of war, terror, and extreme crisis, maintain legality and preserve civil rights and freedoms. David Williams Bates allays these concerns by revisiting the theoretical origins of the modern constitutional state, which, he argues, recognized and made room for tensions among law, war, and the social order. We traditionally associate the Enlightenment with the taming of absolutist sovereign power through the establishment of a legal state based on the rights of individuals. In his critical rereading, Bates shows instead that Enlightenment thinkers conceived of political autonomy in a systematic, theoretical way. Focusing on the nature of foundational violence, war, and existential crises, eighteenth-century thinkers understood law and constitutional order not as constraints on political power but as the logical implication of that primordial force. Returning to the origin stories that informed the beginnings of political community, Bates reclaims the idea of law, warfare, and the social order as intertwining elements subject to complex historical development. Following an analysis of seminal works by seventeenth-century natural-law theorists, Bates reviews the major canonical thinkers of constitutional theory (Locke, Montesquieu, and Rousseau) from the perspective of existential security and sovereign power. Countering Carl Schmitt's influential notion of the autonomy of the political, Bates demonstrates that Enlightenment thinkers understood the autonomous political sphere as a space of law protecting individuals according to their political status, not as mere members of a historically contingent social order. -- Book Description
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xvii, 256 pages
- Contents
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- Constitutional violence and enlightenment thought. Why enlightenment? On law and the origins of the political ; The concept of the political and the constitutional state
- The autonomous state and the origin of the political ; States of law ; The instrumental state ; Reason of state and the origins of legitimacy
- States of reasoning: modern natural-law theory. Disembodied reason and the nature of sovereignty in grotius ; Hobbes's Political robotics ; Pufendorf's Concept of the social
- Locke's Natural history of the political. Why prerogative? ; Sovereign decision and the state of law ; nature, war, and the nature of war ; A natural history of the political ; Law in the postpolitical age ; A political-legal state ; A political community
- Systems of sovereignty in Montesquieu. Two Montesquieus ; The state of war ; The political after war: systems of order ; States in war ; Exceptional states ; Technologies of balance
- Rousseau's Cybernetic political body. Rousseau and the political ; The end of natural law ; Humans In (and out of) nature ; Political cybernetics ; Political bodies at war ; Rousseau and the modern state
- From the concept of the political to the rule of law
- Isbn
- 9780231158046
- Label
- States of war : Enlightenment origins of the political
- Title
- States of war
- Title remainder
- Enlightenment origins of the political
- Statement of responsibility
- David William Bates
- Subject
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- Aufklärung
- Aufklärung
- Enlightenment
- Enlightenment
- History
- Natural law
- Natural law -- History -- 18th century
- Naturrecht
- Naturrecht
- Politische Philosophie
- Politische Philosophie
- Souveränität
- Souveränität
- Sovereignty
- Sovereignty -- History -- 18th century
- State, The
- State, The -- History -- 18th century
- War (International law)
- War (International law) -- History -- 18th century
- 1700 - 1799
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- We fear that the growing threat of violent attack has upset the balance between existential concepts of political power, which emphasize security, and traditional notions of constitutional limits meant to protect civil liberties. We worry that constitutional states cannot, during a time of war, terror, and extreme crisis, maintain legality and preserve civil rights and freedoms. David Williams Bates allays these concerns by revisiting the theoretical origins of the modern constitutional state, which, he argues, recognized and made room for tensions among law, war, and the social order. We traditionally associate the Enlightenment with the taming of absolutist sovereign power through the establishment of a legal state based on the rights of individuals. In his critical rereading, Bates shows instead that Enlightenment thinkers conceived of political autonomy in a systematic, theoretical way. Focusing on the nature of foundational violence, war, and existential crises, eighteenth-century thinkers understood law and constitutional order not as constraints on political power but as the logical implication of that primordial force. Returning to the origin stories that informed the beginnings of political community, Bates reclaims the idea of law, warfare, and the social order as intertwining elements subject to complex historical development. Following an analysis of seminal works by seventeenth-century natural-law theorists, Bates reviews the major canonical thinkers of constitutional theory (Locke, Montesquieu, and Rousseau) from the perspective of existential security and sovereign power. Countering Carl Schmitt's influential notion of the autonomy of the political, Bates demonstrates that Enlightenment thinkers understood the autonomous political sphere as a space of law protecting individuals according to their political status, not as mere members of a historically contingent social order. -- Book Description
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Bates, David William
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- JC171
- LC item number
- .B38 2012
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Columbia studies in political thought/political history.
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- State, The
- Sovereignty
- Natural law
- War (International law)
- Enlightenment
- Enlightenment
- Natural law
- Sovereignty
- State, The
- War (International law)
- Politische Philosophie
- Naturrecht
- Souveränität
- Aufklärung
- Aufklärung
- Naturrecht
- Politische Philosophie
- Souveränität
- Label
- States of war : Enlightenment origins of the political, David William Bates
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Constitutional violence and enlightenment thought. Why enlightenment? On law and the origins of the political ; The concept of the political and the constitutional state -- The autonomous state and the origin of the political ; States of law ; The instrumental state ; Reason of state and the origins of legitimacy -- States of reasoning: modern natural-law theory. Disembodied reason and the nature of sovereignty in grotius ; Hobbes's Political robotics ; Pufendorf's Concept of the social -- Locke's Natural history of the political. Why prerogative? ; Sovereign decision and the state of law ; nature, war, and the nature of war ; A natural history of the political ; Law in the postpolitical age ; A political-legal state ; A political community -- Systems of sovereignty in Montesquieu. Two Montesquieus ; The state of war ; The political after war: systems of order ; States in war ; Exceptional states ; Technologies of balance -- Rousseau's Cybernetic political body. Rousseau and the political ; The end of natural law ; Humans In (and out of) nature ; Political cybernetics ; Political bodies at war ; Rousseau and the modern state -- From the concept of the political to the rule of law
- Dimensions
- 23 cm.
- Extent
- xvii, 256 pages
- Isbn
- 9780231158046
- Isbn Type
- (cloth : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2011008695
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
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- (OCoLC)704557516
- (OCoLC)ocn704557516
- Label
- States of war : Enlightenment origins of the political, David William Bates
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Constitutional violence and enlightenment thought. Why enlightenment? On law and the origins of the political ; The concept of the political and the constitutional state -- The autonomous state and the origin of the political ; States of law ; The instrumental state ; Reason of state and the origins of legitimacy -- States of reasoning: modern natural-law theory. Disembodied reason and the nature of sovereignty in grotius ; Hobbes's Political robotics ; Pufendorf's Concept of the social -- Locke's Natural history of the political. Why prerogative? ; Sovereign decision and the state of law ; nature, war, and the nature of war ; A natural history of the political ; Law in the postpolitical age ; A political-legal state ; A political community -- Systems of sovereignty in Montesquieu. Two Montesquieus ; The state of war ; The political after war: systems of order ; States in war ; Exceptional states ; Technologies of balance -- Rousseau's Cybernetic political body. Rousseau and the political ; The end of natural law ; Humans In (and out of) nature ; Political cybernetics ; Political bodies at war ; Rousseau and the modern state -- From the concept of the political to the rule of law
- Dimensions
- 23 cm.
- Extent
- xvii, 256 pages
- Isbn
- 9780231158046
- Isbn Type
- (cloth : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2011008695
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
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- (OCoLC)704557516
- (OCoLC)ocn704557516
Subject
- Aufklärung
- Aufklärung
- Enlightenment
- Enlightenment
- History
- Natural law
- Natural law -- History -- 18th century
- Naturrecht
- Naturrecht
- Politische Philosophie
- Politische Philosophie
- Souveränität
- Souveränität
- Sovereignty
- Sovereignty -- History -- 18th century
- State, The
- State, The -- History -- 18th century
- War (International law)
- War (International law) -- History -- 18th century
- 1700 - 1799
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