# The State of Nature - Portail Universitaire du droit

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## Parution

*Histories of an Idea*

- **ISBN** : 978-9-004-39517-6
- **Éditeur** : Brill

## Résumé

Présentation de l'éditeur
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, László Kontler, Grant S. McCall, Emile Simpson,Tom Sparks, Benjamin Straumann, Karl Widerquist, Sarah Winter, and Simone Zurbuchen.
 
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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     László 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


## Métadonnées

- **Catégorie** : Parutions
- **Publié** : 2021-12-10

## Tags

Droit privé, Droit public, Histoire de la pensée juridique, Histoire des idées, Histoire du droit, Philosophie et théorie du droit, Sciences politiques

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