State, Security, and Subject Formation

ISBN-13: 9780826442840 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 216 str.

Anna Yeatman

Opis

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 thought and how it is caught up in debate about the relationship between faith and the state at a time when religious wars are endemic and profoundly destructive. They also provide an in-depth discussion of contemporary 21st and 20th century approaches to the question of security and the issue of subjective capacity for peaceful co-existence. Civil Order and Politics is the outcome of an intensive cross-disciplinary cooperation and, as such, not only demonstrates the richness of relevant themes and issues, but also brings to the fore challenges and problems associated with civil practice and theorizing of politics. Through its thematic juxtaposition of state, security, and subjectivity within the framework of civil order and politics, the book fills a gap in the contemporary political literature that will be of interest to anyone studying and researching these issues.

Spis treści

Chapter 1    State, Security and Subject Formation—an Introduction  by Anna Yeatman  
                        
Chapter 2    The Man and the Citizen: the Pluralization of Civil Personae in Early Modern German Natural Law by Ian Hunter   

Chapter 3     Reassembling Civilization: State-formation, Subjectivity, Security, Power by Robert van Krieken                   
Chapter 4     Without Exception: Democracy and Sovereignty After Carl Schmitt by Charles Barbour    
               
Chapter 5     Anti-security Personae: from David Dyzenhaus's Human Rights Lawyer to Giorgio Agamben's illuminato by   David Saunders
               
Chapter 6     Doubt, Ambiguity and Subject Formation by      Paul Hoggett and Nigel Williams               
 
Chapter 7     The Subject ‘At the Gates of the Polis': Theorizing Transitional Civic Order from the Site of Trauma by Magdalena Zolkos         
             
Chapter 8     Self-preservation and the Idea of the State by Anna Yeatman           
               
Chapter 9     Society, State, Security, and Subject Formation: The Emergence of Modern Neutrality Society and the Formation of the Types of Subjects it Requires by Gary Wickham and Barbara Evers     
         
Chapter 10     Anti-colonial Nationalisms: the Case of India by Benjamin Zachariah        
              
Chapter 11     The Sense of Existing and its Political Implications (on François Flahault's ‘General Anthropology') by Jeffrey Minson            
              
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