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

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...

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Main Author: Epstein, Charlotte, 1975- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020.
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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.
Item Description:Also issued in print: 2020.
Physical Description:1 online resource (352 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780190917661
0190917660