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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Foreword by Dick Howard
Preface
Introduction: Constitutional Violence and Enlightenment Thought
Why Enlightenment? On Law and the Origins of the Political
The Concept of the Political and the Constitutional State
Chapter 1: The Autonomous State and the Origin of the Political
States of Law
The Instrumental State
Reason of State and the Origins of Legitimacy
Chapter 2: States of Reasoning: Modern Natural-Law Theory
Disembodied Reason and the Nature of Sovereignty in Grotius
Hobbes’s Political Robotics
Pufendorf’s Concept of the Social
Chapter 3: Locke’s Natural History of the Political
Why Prerogative?
Sovereign Decision and the State of Law
Nature, War, and the Nature of War
A Natural History of the Political
Law in the Postpolitical Age
A Political-Legal State
A Political Community
Chapter 4: Systems of Sovereignty in Montesquieu
Two Montesquieus
The State of War
The Political After War: Systems of Order
States in War
Exceptional States
Technologies of Balance
Chapter 5: Rousseau’s Cybernetic Political Body
Rousseau and the Political
The End of Natural Law
Humans In (and Out of) Nature
Political Cybernetics
Political Bodies at War
Rousseau and the Modern State
Conclusion: From the Concept of the Political to the Rule of Law
Notes
Index
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