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Birth of the State - The Place of the Body in Crafting Modern Politics (Hardcover)
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Birth of the State - The Place of the Body in Crafting Modern Politics (Hardcover)
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This book uses the body to peel back the layers of time and
taken-for-granted ideas about the two defining political forms of
modernity, the state and the subject of rights. It traces, under
the lens of the body, how the state and the subject mutually
constituted each other all the way down, by going all the way back,
to their original crafting in the seventeenth century. It considers
two revolutions. The first, scientific, threw humanity out of the
centre of the universe, and transformed the very meanings of
matter, space, and the body; while the second, legal and political,
re-established humans as the centre-point of the framework of
modern rights. The book analyses the fundamental rights to
security, liberty, and property respectively as the initial knots
where the state-subject relation was first sealed. It develops
three arguments, that the body served to naturalise security; to
individualise liberty; and to privatise property. Covering a wide
range of materials-from early modern Dutch painting, to the canon
of English political thought, the Anglo-Scottish legal struggles of
naturalization, and medical and religious practices-it shows both
how the body has operated as history's great naturaliser, and how
it can be mobilised instead as a critical tool that lays bare the
deeply racialised and gendered constructions that made the state
and the subject of rights. The book returns to the origins of
constructivist and constitutive theorising to reclaim their radical
and critical potential.
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