Birth of the state : the place of the body in crafting modern politics. / Charlotte Epstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Epstein, Charlotte, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political participation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (352 pages).

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]

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.

Contents:

Introduction

The Corporeal Ontology of Modern Security

Denaturalising Security

From Liberties to Liberty : Crafting Territory and the Law with the Body

Externalising and Internalising Liberty via Discipline

Privatising Property

Public Anatomy Lesson

Conclusion.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-091765-2

0-19-091763-6

0-19-091766-0

0-19-091764-4