Changes of State (eBook)

Nature and the Limits of the City in Early Modern Natural Law

Annabel S. Brett (Autor)

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2011
264 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-3862-2 (ISBN)

Infos

This is a book about the theory of the city or commonwealth, what would come to be called the state, in early modern natural law discourse. Annabel Brett takes a fresh approach by looking at this political entity from the perspective of its boundaries and those who crossed them. She begins with a classic debate from the Spanish sixteenth century over the political treatment of mendicants, showing how cosmopolitan ideals of porous boundaries could simultaneously justify the freedoms of itinerant beggars and the activities of European colonists in the Indies. She goes on to examine the boundaries of the state in multiple senses, including the fundamental barrier between human beings and animals and the limits of the state in the face of the natural lives of its subjects, as well as territorial frontiers. Drawing on a wide range of authors, Brett reveals how early modern political space was constructed from a complex dynamic of inclusion and exclusion. Throughout, she shows that early modern debates about political boundaries displayed unheralded creativity and virtuosity but were nevertheless vulnerable to innumerable paradoxes, contradictions, and loose ends. Changes of State is a major work of intellectual history that resonates with modern debates about globalization and the transformation of the nation-state.

Autor

Annabel S. Brett is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. She is the author of Liberty, Right, and Nature and a new translation of Marsilius of Padua's Defender of the Peace.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.3.2011
• Zusatzinfo: 5 halftones. 1 map.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Mittelalter
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Schlagworte: Agency (philosophy) • Alberico Gentili • Alterity • Analogy • animal behavior • anti-Aristotelian • Antithesis • Aristotelianism • Aristotelian thinking • Aristotle • author • begging • Bibliotheca Teubneriana • body politic • Cajetan • Cambridge University Press • casuistry • Catholic scholastic tradition • Citizenship • City • Civil Law • civil liberty • Civil Society • Civil War • Commonwealth • Consideration • Cosmopolitanism • Crime • Critical edition (opera) • critique • De Cive • de facto • de jure • De legibus • Deliberation • Deontological Ethics • dichotomy • divine law • Domingo de Soto • Dominium • early modern politics • Edition (book) • ethics • European States • external movement • Francisco de Vitoria • free agency • freedom • Free Will • Generosity • Globalization • God • Hugo Grotius • human agency • Human beings • human will • Impediment (canon law) • impunity • individual agency • Institution • International Law • International Relations • Ius naturale • Jean Bodin • Johannes Althusius • juridical entity • Jurisdiction • Jurisprudence • Law • law of humanity • law of war • Lecture • legal humanist thinking • Legislation • Leviathan • Literature • local motion • Locomotion • Luis de Molina • Mare Liberum • Moral Philosophy • mortal sin • Multitude • narrative • Nation-state • Natural and legal rights • natural body • natural faculty • Natural Law • natural law discourse • natural liberty • natural mastery • Naturalness (physics) • Natural Philosophy • natural slavery • natural slaves • natural world • Nicomachean Ethics • Obedience (human behavior) • Obligation • On Justice • On Liberty • Order • Oxford Classical Texts • Peace of Westphalia • phenomenon • Philosopher • Philosophy • physical movement • Place • Polemic • political boundaries • Political literature • Political Philosophy • Political Science • political space • Politics • porous boundary • positive law • Positivism • Postliminium • Principle • Protestant jurists • Protestant natural law • Provision (contracting) • Publication • Quentin Skinner • reason • ResPublica • Roman law • Ruler • Self-Interest • Slavery • Sociability • sovereign state • Sovereignty • Spanish School of Salamanca • spatial location • State • Stoicism • subjects • theological differences • theory • Thomas Aquinas • Thomas Hobbes • Thomism • Thought • Traveler • treatise • Understanding • UNITY • University of Victoria • Vernacular • voluntariness • Writing
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-3862-2 / 1400838622
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-3862-2 / 9781400838622