LEADER 05069nam 22007815 450 001 9910457677103321 005 20210114065353.0 010 $a1-281-60692-8 010 $a9786613787637 010 $a0-231-52866-3 024 7 $a10.7312/bate15804 035 $a(CKB)2550000000064876 035 $a(EBL)909371 035 $a(OCoLC)761369125 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000340797 035 $a(DE-B1597)458641 035 $a(OCoLC)1013950573 035 $a(OCoLC)979967700 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231528665 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC909371 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000064876 100 $a20190708d2011 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aStates of War $eEnlightenment Origins of the Political /$fDavid Bates 210 1$aNew York, NY : $cColumbia University Press, $d[2011] 210 4$dİ2011 215 $a1 online resource (281 p.) 225 0 $aColumbia Studies in Political Thought / Political History 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-231-15805-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tForeword / $rHoward, Dick -- $tPreface -- $tIntroduction. Constitutional Violence and Enlightenment Thought -- $tChapter 1. The Autonomous State and the Origin of the Political -- $tChapter 2. States of Reasoning: Modern Natural-Law Theory -- $tChapter 3. Locke's Natural History of the Political -- $tChapter 4. Systems of Sovereignty in Montesquieu -- $tChapter 5. Rousseau's Cybernetic Political Body -- $tConclusion. From the Concept of the Political to the Rule of Law -- $tNotes -- $tIndex 330 $aWe fear that the growing threat of violent attack has upset the balance between existential concepts of political power, which emphasize security, and traditional notions of constitutional limits meant to protect civil liberties. We worry that constitutional states cannot, during a time of war, terror, and extreme crisis, maintain legality and preserve civil rights and freedoms. David Williams Bates allays these concerns by revisiting the theoretical origins of the modern constitutional state, which, he argues, recognized and made room for tensions among law, war, and the social order.We traditionally associate the Enlightenment with the taming of absolutist sovereign power through the establishment of a legal state based on the rights of individuals. In his critical rereading, Bates shows instead that Enlightenment thinkers conceived of political autonomy in a systematic, theoretical way. Focusing on the nature of foundational violence, war, and existential crises, eighteenth-century thinkers understood law and constitutional order not as constraints on political power but as the logical implication of that primordial force. Returning to the origin stories that informed the beginnings of political community, Bates reclaims the idea of law, warfare, and the social order as intertwining elements subject to complex historical development. Following an analysis of seminal works by seventeenth-century natural-law theorists, Bates reviews the major canonical thinkers of constitutional theory (Locke, Montesquieu, and Rousseau) from the perspective of existential security and sovereign power. Countering Carl Schmitt's influential notion of the autonomy of the political, Bates demonstrates that Enlightenment thinkers understood the autonomous political sphere as a space of law protecting individuals according to their political status, not as mere members of a historically contingent social order. 410 0$aColumbia studies in political thought/political history. 606 $aEnlightenment 606 $aEnlightenment 606 $aNatural law - History - 18th century 606 $aNatural law - History - 18th century 606 $aSovereignty - History - 18th century 606 $aSovereignty - History - 18th century 606 $aState, The - History - 18th century 606 $aState, The - History - 18th century 606 $aWar (International law) - History - 18th century 606 $aWar (International law) - History - 18th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 4$aEnlightenment. 615 4$aEnlightenment. 615 4$aNatural law - History - 18th century. 615 4$aNatural law - History - 18th century. 615 4$aSovereignty - History - 18th century. 615 4$aSovereignty - History - 18th century. 615 4$aState, The - History - 18th century. 615 4$aState, The - History - 18th century. 615 4$aWar (International law) - History - 18th century. 615 4$aWar (International law) - History - 18th century. 676 $a320.109033 686 $aMD 4400$2rvk 700 $aBates$b David, $01033955 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910457677103321 996 $aStates of War$92452784 997 $aUNINA