05069nam 22007815 450 991045767710332120210114065353.01-281-60692-897866137876370-231-52866-310.7312/bate15804(CKB)2550000000064876(EBL)909371(OCoLC)761369125(StDuBDS)EDZ0000340797(DE-B1597)458641(OCoLC)1013950573(OCoLC)979967700(DE-B1597)9780231528665(MiAaPQ)EBC909371(EXLCZ)99255000000006487620190708d2011 fg engur|n|---|||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierStates of War Enlightenment Origins of the Political /David BatesNew York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2011]©20111 online resource (281 p.)Columbia Studies in Political Thought / Political HistoryDescription based upon print version of record.0-231-15805-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword / Howard, Dick -- Preface -- Introduction. Constitutional Violence and Enlightenment Thought -- Chapter 1. The Autonomous State and the Origin of the Political -- Chapter 2. States of Reasoning: Modern Natural-Law Theory -- Chapter 3. Locke's Natural History of the Political -- Chapter 4. Systems of Sovereignty in Montesquieu -- Chapter 5. Rousseau's Cybernetic Political Body -- Conclusion. From the Concept of the Political to the Rule of Law -- Notes -- IndexWe 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.Columbia studies in political thought/political history.EnlightenmentEnlightenmentNatural law - History - 18th centuryNatural law - History - 18th centurySovereignty - History - 18th centurySovereignty - History - 18th centuryState, The - History - 18th centuryState, The - History - 18th centuryWar (International law) - History - 18th centuryWar (International law) - History - 18th centuryElectronic books.Enlightenment.Enlightenment.Natural law - History - 18th century.Natural law - History - 18th century.Sovereignty - History - 18th century.Sovereignty - History - 18th century.State, The - History - 18th century.State, The - History - 18th century.War (International law) - History - 18th century.War (International law) - History - 18th century.320.109033MD 4400rvkBates David, 1033955DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910457677103321States of War2452784UNINA