TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brett,Annabel S.
TI  - Changes of State: Nature and the Limits of the City in Early Modern Natural Law 
SN  - 9780691141930
AV  - JC323 
U1  - 320.101 23
PY  - 2011///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Boundaries (Philosophy)
KW  - Boundaries
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - History
KW  - Natural law
KW  - State, The
KW  - To 1500
KW  - Origin
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - HISTORY / Modern / 16th Century
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Aristotelian thinking
KW  - Catholic scholastic tradition
KW  - Domingo de Soto
KW  - European states
KW  - Francisco de Vitoria
KW  - Leviathan
KW  - Peace of Westphalia
KW  - Protestant jurists
KW  - Protestant natural law
KW  - Spanish School of Salamanca
KW  - Thomas Aquinas
KW  - Thomas Hobbes
KW  - alterity
KW  - animal behavior
KW  - anti-Aristotelian
KW  - body politic
KW  - city
KW  - civil law
KW  - civil liberty
KW  - civil war
KW  - commonwealth
KW  - dominium
KW  - early modern politics
KW  - external movement
KW  - free agency
KW  - freedom
KW  - globalization
KW  - human agency
KW  - human beings
KW  - human will
KW  - individual agency
KW  - juridical entity
KW  - law of humanity
KW  - law
KW  - legal humanist thinking
KW  - local motion
KW  - locomotion
KW  - moral philosophy
KW  - nation-state
KW  - natural body
KW  - natural faculty
KW  - natural law discourse
KW  - natural law
KW  - natural liberty
KW  - natural mastery
KW  - natural slavery
KW  - natural slaves
KW  - natural world
KW  - obligation
KW  - order
KW  - physical movement
KW  - place
KW  - political boundaries
KW  - political literature
KW  - political space
KW  - porous boundary
KW  - sociability
KW  - spatial location
KW  - state
KW  - subjects
KW  - theological differences
KW  - traveler
KW  - unity
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; A Note on the Text --; Acknowledgements --; INTRODUCTION. On the threshold of the state --; CHAPTER ONE. Travelling the borderline --; CHAPTER TWO. Constructing human agency --; CHAPTER THREE. Natural law --; CHAPTER FOUR. Natural liberty --; CHAPTER FIVE. Kingdoms founded --; CHAPTER SIX. The lives of subjects --; CHAPTER SEVEN. Locality --; CHAPTER EIGHT. Re-placing the state --; Bibliography of works cited --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - This is a book about the theory of the city or commonwealth, what would come to be called the state, in early modern natural law discourse. Annabel Brett takes a fresh approach by looking at this political entity from the perspective of its boundaries and those who crossed them. She begins with a classic debate from the Spanish sixteenth century over the political treatment of mendicants, showing how cosmopolitan ideals of porous boundaries could simultaneously justify the freedoms of itinerant beggars and the activities of European colonists in the Indies. She goes on to examine the boundaries of the state in multiple senses, including the fundamental barrier between human beings and animals and the limits of the state in the face of the natural lives of its subjects, as well as territorial frontiers. Drawing on a wide range of authors, Brett reveals how early modern political space was constructed from a complex dynamic of inclusion and exclusion. Throughout, she shows that early modern debates about political boundaries displayed unheralded creativity and virtuosity but were nevertheless vulnerable to innumerable paradoxes, contradictions, and loose ends. Changes of State is a major work of intellectual history that resonates with modern debates about globalization and the transformation of the nation-state
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400838622?locatt=mode:legacy
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