This is the first detailed study in any language of the single most
influential theory of the modern state: Samuel von Pufendorf's
account of the state as a 'moral person'. Ben Holland reconstructs
the theological and political contexts in and for which Pufendorf
conceived of the state as being a person. Pufendorf took up an
early Christian conception of personality and a medieval conception
of freedom in order to fashion a theory of the state appropriate to
continental Europe, and which could head off some of the absolutist
implications of a rival theory of state personality, that of
Hobbes. The book traces the fate of the concept in the hands of
others - international lawyers, moral philosophers and
revolutionaries - until the early twentieth century. It will be
essential reading for historians of political thought and for those
interested in the development of key ideas in theology,
international law and international relations.
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