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The phrase, "state of nature", has been used over centuries to describe the uncultivated state of lands and animals, nudity, innocence, heaven and hell, interstate relations, and the locus of pre- and supra-political rights, such as the right to resistance, to property, to create and leave polities, and the freedom of religion, speech, and opinion, which may be reactivated or reprioritised when the polity and its laws fail. Combining intellectual history with current concerns, this volume brings together fourteen essays on the past, present and possible future applications of the legal fiction known as the state of nature.
Contributors are: Daniel S. Allemann, Pamela Edwards, Ioannis D. Evrigenis, Mary C. Fuller, David Singh Grewal, Francesca Iurlaro, Edward J. Kolla, Laszlo Kontler, Grant S. McCall, Emile Simpson,Tom Sparks, Benjamin Straumann, Karl Widerquist, Sarah Winter, and Simone Zurbuchen.
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"Somos and Peters have managed to offer a collection of essays which both deepens and challenges our knowledge of these authors by setting them in new contexts and juxtaposing their work to that of their contemporaries, antecedents, and followers. [...] The chapters in this collection show that state of nature as a multi-faceted and versatile concept, whose origins can be traced back much further than the early modern period. [...] informative, highly readable and generally concise, the chapters in this book can be studied individually or as a whole as useful introductions to new research". Gaby Mahlberg in
European Review of History,
30 (2), 2023.
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Mark Somos, Ph.D. (2007 Harvard, 2014 Leiden), holds the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft's Heisenberg position. He wrote Secularisation and the Leiden Circle (Brill, 2011) and American States of Nature: The Origins of Independence, 1761-1775 (Oxford, 2019).
Anne Peters, Ph.D. (1994 Freiburg), is Director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, a Professor at Heidelberg, Freie Universitaet Berlin, and Basel, and L. Bates Lea Global Law Professor at the University of Michigan.
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Notes on Contributors
?Introduction
??Mark?? ??Somos??? ?and? ???Anne?? ??Peters??????
1?Thucydides, Hobbes, and the Melian Dialogue
??Benjamin?? ??Straumann??????
2?Missing Terms in English Geographical Thinking, 1550-1600
??Mary C???.? ??Fuller??????
3?Do Shepherds Live in a State of Nature? From? Peculium to Civilization???
??Francesca?? ??Iurlaro??????
4?After Vitoria Natural Law and the Spanish Ideology of Empire???
??Daniel S???.? ??Allemann??????
5?Fleeing "Polyphemus?'s Den" Locke's State of Nature as Sanctuary???
??Ioannis?? ??Evrigenis??????
6?Invisible People The State of Nature in Hugo Grotius' Account of Global Legal Order???
??Emile?? ??Simpson??????
7?From the State of Nature to the State of Economy Pufendorf on Commerce and Natural Law???
??David Singh?? ??Grewal??????
8?The State of Nature, the Family and the State
??Simone?? ??Zurbuchen??????
9?Written in the Hearts of People? Natural and International Law during the Age of Enlightenment???
??Edward J???.? ??Kolla??????
10?From Natural Equality to Frankpledge? The State of Nature, Ancient Constitutionalism, and the Rupture of the Social Contract in Eighteenth-Century Antislavery Writings???
??Sarah?? ??Winter??????
11?From the State of Nature to the Natural State Transforming the Foundations of Science and Civil Progress in Eighteenth-Century British Political Thought???
??Pamela?? ??Edwards??????
12?Their Own State(s) of Nature The Enlightenment Social Imaginary and the Invention of Hungarian Ethnic Origins???
??L?a?szl?o??? ??Kontler??????
13?The Place of the Environment in State of Nature Discourses Reassessing Nature, Property and Sovereignty in the Anthropocene???
??Tom?? ??Sparks??????
14?The State of Nature, Prehistory, and Mythmaking
??Karl?? ??Widerquist??? ?and? ???Grant S.?? ??McCall??????
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