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David Bates

States of War

Enlightenment Origins of the Political

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We fear that the growing threat of violent attack has upset the balance between existential concepts of political power, which emphasize security, and traditional notions of constitutional limits meant to protect civil liberties. We worry that constitutional states cannot, during a time of war, terror, and extreme crisis, maintain legality and preserve civil rights and freedoms. David Williams Bates allays these concerns by revisiting the theoretical origins of the modern constitutional state, which, he argues, recognized and made room for tensions among law, war, and the social order. We traditionally associate the Enlightenment with the ta… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-231-15804-6
  • EAN: 9780231158046
  • Produktnummer: 11439630
  • Verlag: Columbia University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
  • Seitenangabe: 280 S.
  • Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D0.0 cm 496 g
  • Gewicht: 496
  • Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational

Über den Autor


David William Bates is professor of rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley, and director of the Berkeley Center for New Media. He is the author of Enlightenment Aberrations: Error and Revolution in France, and, alongside his work on the history of political and legal thought, his research focuses on the intersections between technology and cognition since the Scientific Revolution.

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