Can I read Divine Sovereignty : the Origins of Modern State Power on EtoBox?

Divine Sovereignty : the Origins of Modern State Power by Engster, Daniel is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Divine Sovereignty : the Origins of Modern State Power about?

How did the modern state become the Leviathan that Hobbes described? Engster challenges the common assertion that the state emerged from a new secular philosophy at the time of the Renaissance. He argues instead that early modern theorists legitimized state power by portraying it as a sanctified force for moral order within an otherwise secular and contingent world. Engster traces the modern development of state authority to the breakdown of medieval ideas of order encompassed in the "great chain of being." He then shows how sixteenth- and seventeenth-century writers and statesmen such as Montaigne, Bodin, Richelieu, Bossuet, and Hobbes redefined the main principles of the stateincluding legislative sovereignty, executive prerogative, governmental regulation, and bureaucratic rationalityin ways that underlie state organization even today. Providing a broad synthesis of early modern state theory and practice, Divine Sovereignty suggests that these writers envisioned the state as the center of divine and natural order in a world that had strayed from divine guidance. In revealing how early modern theorists and statesmen justified the new powers of their Leviathan, Engster also illu

Author

Engster, Daniel

Publisher

DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9780875802756

Subjects

Political Science, History, Social_sciences