States of war : Enlightenment origins of the political / David William Bates.
| Author/creator | Bates, David William |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York : Columbia University Press, ©2012. |
| Description | xvii, 256 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Columbia studies in political thought/political history Columbia studies in political thought/political history. ^A629881 |
| Contents | Machine generated contents note: Constitutional Violence and Enlightenment Thought -- Why Enlightenment? On Law and the Origins of the Political -- The Concept of the Political and the Constitutional State -- ch. 1 The Autonomous State and the Origin of the Political -- States of Law -- The Instrumental State -- Reason of State and the Origins of Legitimacy -- ch. 2 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 -- ch. 3 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 -- ch. 4 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 -- ch. 5 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 -- CONCLUSION -- From the Concept of the Political to the Rule of Law. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2011008695 |
| ISBN | 9780231158046 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0231158041 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780231158053 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 023115805X (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780231528665 (e-book) |
| ISBN | 0231528663 (e-book) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | JC171 .B38 2012 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |