State, security, and subject formation / edited by Anna Yeatman and Magdalena Zolkos.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Yeatman, Anna.

Zokos, Magdalena.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civil society.

State, The.

Internal security.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (211 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Continuum, 2010.

Summary:

State, Security, and Subject Formation addresses the question of how to secure the conditions for a civil and peaceful life together. It brings together leading scholars to examine democracy from two approaches: peaceful coexistence and the secular state as public authority and the necessity of division between communities of faith that allows for a state that defends the values of the community. This book aims to understand the rationality that informs both approaches, interpreting the subjectivities within each. To do so, the interdisciplinary, scholarly essays examine 17th century political

Contents:

Contents; Contributors; Preface; Chapter 1 State, Security, and Subject Formation-an Introduction; Chapter 2 The Man and the Citizen: the Pluralization of Civil Personae in Early Modern German Natural Law; Chapter 3 Reassembling Civilization: State-Formation, Subjectivity, Security, Power; Chapter 4 Without Exception: Democracy and Sovereignty after Carl Schmitt; Chapter 5 Antisecurity Personae: from David Dyzenhaus's Human Rights Lawyer to Giorgio Agamben's Illuminato; Chapter 6 Doubt, Ambiguity, and Subject Formation

Chapter 7 The Subject "At the Gates of the Polis": Theorizing Transitional Civic Order from the Site of TraumaChapter 8 Self-Preservation and the Idea of the State; Chapter 9 Society, State, Security, and Subject Formation: the Emergence of Modern Neutrality Society and the Formation of the Types of Subjects It Requires; Chapter 10 Anticolonial Nationalisms: the Case of India; Chapter 11 The Sense of Existing and Its Political Implications (on François Flahault's "General Anthropology"); Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612870866

9781282870864

1282870866

9781441102249

1441102248

OCLC:

676698378