Birth of the State: The Place of the Body in Crafting Modern Politics

Birth of the State: The Place of the Body in Crafting Modern Politics
ISBN-10
0190917628
ISBN-13
9780190917623
Category
Political Science
Pages
340
Language
English
Published
2020-12-18
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Author
Charlotte Epstein

Description

This book uses the body to peel back the layers of time and taken-for-granted ideas about 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 since their original crafting in the seventeenth century. Considering multiple sites of theory and practice, Charlotte Epstein analyses the fundamental rights to security, liberty, and property respectively as the initial knots where the state-subject relation was first sealed.

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