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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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Vazba: Pevná

Vydavatel: Cornell University Press

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

Informace o knize

Autor

Daniel Engster

Jazyk

Angličtina

Vazba

Kniha - Pevná

Vydáno

2001

Stránek

267

EAN

9780875802756

Enbook ID

04750082

Vydavatel

Cornell University Press

Hmotnost

Rozměry

152 x 229 x 26

Kompletní popis

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.