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

by Charlotte Epstein

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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 all the way down, by going all the way back, to their original crafting in the seventeenth century. It considers two revolutions. The first, scientific, threw humanity out of the...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0190917636

ISBN13:9780190917630

Release Date:December 2020

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Length:352 Pages

Weight:1.10 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"

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Political Science Politics & Social Sciences

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