{"product_id":"changes-of-state-nature-and-the-limits-of-the-city-in-early-modern-natural-law-9780691162416","title":"Changes of State  Nature and the Limits of the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDeals with the theory of the city or commonwealth, what would come to be called the state, in early modern natural law discourse. This book takes an approach by looking at this political entity from the perspective of its boundaries and those who crossed them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Annabel S. Brett has amassed a great deal of information and delivers it and, as importantly, original insights of great value, with elegance, impressively, memorably... Highly recommended. What the Renaissance coped with in terms of balance between tradition and modernity, between mankind and nature, between freedom and order ... and a new relationship between God and His creation, proves a worthy topic for an exceptionally talented scholar and a good read for the rest of us.\"--Bibliothe'que d'Humanisme et Renaissance \"The book's achievements are at several levels: as an impressively detailed intellectual history of some of the wide-ranging controversies preoccupying natural law theorists in sixteenth- to mid-seventeenth-century Europe; as a cogent analysis of what is at stake in Grotius's and above all Hobbes's significant developments of natural law theory; and as an innovative approach to the study of political thought.\"--Simon Kow, Canadian Journal of History\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Note on the Text ix  Acknowledgements xi  INTRODUCTION: On the threshold of the state 1  CHAPTER ONE: Travelling the borderline 11  CHAPTER TWO: Constructing human agency 37  CHAPTER THREE: Natural law 62  CHAPTER FOUR: Natural liberty 90  CHAPTER FIVE: Kingdoms founded 115  CHAPTER SIX: The lives of subjects 142  CHAPTER SEVEN: Locality 169  CHAPTER EIGHT: Re-placing the state 195  Bibliography of works cited 225  Index 237","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51037264478551,"sku":"9780691162416","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691162416.jpg?v=1750935054","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/changes-of-state-nature-and-the-limits-of-the-city-in-early-modern-natural-law-9780691162416","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}