State, Security, and Subject Formation - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0826442846 ISBN 13: 9780826442840

Publisher: Continuum, 2010

Synopsis

State, Security, and Subject Formation addresses the question of how to secure the conditions for a civil and peaceful life together. It brings together leading scholars to examine democracy from two approaches: peaceful coexistence and the secular state as public authority and the necessity of division between communities of faith that allows for a state that defends the values of the community. This book aims to understand the rationality that informs both approaches, interpreting the subjectivities within each.

To do so, the interdisciplinary, scholarly essays examine 17th century political thought and how it is caught up in debate about the relationship between faith and the state at a time when religious wars are endemic and profoundly destructive. They also provide an in-depth discussion of contemporary 21st and 20th century approaches to the question of security and the issue of subjective capacity for peaceful co-existence.

Civil Order and Politics is the outcome of an intensive cross-disciplinary cooperation and, as such, not only demonstrates the richness of relevant themes and issues, but also brings to the fore challenges and problems associated with civil practice and theorizing of politics. Through its thematic juxtaposition of state, security, and subjectivity within the framework of civil order and politics, the book fills a gap in the contemporary political literature that will be of interest to anyone studying and researching these issues.

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About the Authors

Anna Yeatman is a Professorial Fellow in the Whitlam Institute at the University of Western Sydney. She is a political and social theorist who also has practical experience in public policy. Her many publications include Postmodern Revisionings of the Political (2014), Individualiztion and the Delivery of Welfare Services (2009) and Bureaucrats, Technocrats, Femocrats (1990).

Magdalena Zolkos is research fellow in political theory at the Center for Citizenship and Public Policy, University of Western Sydney. She has published on issues of reconciliation, collective trauma, community and testimony.

Edition details

• Publisher: Continuum
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0826442846
• ISBN 13: 9780826442840
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 210
• Editor: Zolkos Magdalena