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Birth of the state : the place of the body in crafting modern politics / Charlotte Epstein.
Series: Oxford scholarship online: Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020Description: 1 online resource (352 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780190917661 (ebook) :Subject(s): Constructivism (Philosophy) | State, The -- Philosophy
| Liberty -- PhilosophyAdditional Physical Form: Print version : 9780190917623DDC classification: 149 LOC classification: B809.13Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: This text uses the body to peel back the layers of time and taken-for-granted-ness upon the two defining political forms of modernity, the state and the subject of rights. It traces, under the lens of the body, how the state and the subject mutually constituted each other all the way down, by going all the way back, to their original crafting in the seventeenth century. It considers multiple sites of theory and practice and two revolutions.
| Item type | Current library | Class number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| ebook | House of Lords Library - Palace Online access | 1 | Available |
Also issued in print: 2020.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This text uses the body to peel back the layers of time and taken-for-granted-ness upon the two defining political forms of modernity, the state and the subject of rights. It traces, under the lens of the body, how the state and the subject mutually constituted each other all the way down, by going all the way back, to their original crafting in the seventeenth century. It considers multiple sites of theory and practice and two revolutions.
Specialized.
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