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Divine Sovereignty

Name: Divine Sovereignty
Brand: Cornell University Press
SKU: 9780875802756
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The Origins of Modern State Power

Autor: Daniel Engster

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Editura: Cornell University Press

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How did the modern state become the Leviathan that Hobbes described? Engster challenges the common a...

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Autor

Daniel Engster

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2001

Pagini

267

EAN

9780875802756

Enbook ID

04750082

Editura

Cornell University Press

Greutate

Dimensiuni

152 x 229 x 26

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How did the modern state become the Leviathan that Hobbes described? Engster challenges the common assertion that the state emerged from a new secular philosophy at the time of the Renaissance. He argues instead that early modern theorists legitimized state power by portraying it as a sanctified force for moral order within an otherwise secular and contingent world. Engster traces the modern development of state authority to the breakdown of medieval ideas of order encompassed in the "great chain of being." He then shows how sixteenth- and seventeenth-century writers and statesmen such as Montaigne, Bodin, Richelieu, Bossuet, and Hobbes redefined the main principles of the state--including legislative sovereignty, executive prerogative, governmental regulation, and bureaucratic rationality--in ways that underlie state organization even today. Providing a broad synthesis of early modern state theory and practice, "Divine Sovereignty" suggests that these writers envisioned the state as the center of divine and natural order in a world that had strayed from divine guidance. In revealing how early modern theorists and statesmen justified the new powers of their Leviathan, Engster also illuminates conflicts and paradoxes within the modern nation-state.