Edges of the State

Protevi, John

ISBN 10: 1517907969 / ISBN 13: 9781517907969

Verlag: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2019

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 35721251-n

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Using philosophical and scientific work to engage the perennial question of human nature
 

This book takes a look at the formation, and edges, of states: their breakdowns and attempts to repair them, and their encounters with non-state peoples. It draws upon anthropology, political philosophy, neuroscience, evolutionary biology, child developmental psychology, and other fields to look at states as projects of constructing “bodies politic,” where the civic and the somatic intersect. John Protevi asserts that humans are predisposed to “prosociality,” or being emotionally invested in social partners and patterns. With readings from Jean-Jacques Rousseau and James C. Scott; a critique of the assumption of widespread pre-state warfare as a selection pressure for the evolution of human prosociality and altruism; and an examination of the different “economies of violence” of state and non-state societies, Edges of the State sketches a notion of prosocial human nature and its attendant normative maxims.

Forerunners: Ideas First
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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

John Protevi is Phyllis M. Taylor Professor of French Studies and professor of philosophy at Louisiana State University. He is author of Political Affect (Minnesota, 2009) and Life, War, Earth (Minnesota, 2013), and editor of A Dictionary of Continental Philosophy.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Edges of the State
Verlag: Univ Of Minnesota Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: New