The State of Nature: Histories of an Idea

By Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law and Anne Peters and Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law.

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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, L szl Kontler, Grant S. McCall, Emile Simpson, Tom Sparks, Benjamin Straumann, Karl Widerquist, Sarah Winter, and Simone Zurbuchen.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004395172
• ISBN13: 9789004395176
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 428 Pages
• Weight: 1.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"