State, Security, and Subject Formation

Chapter 1 State, Security and Subject Formation - an Introduction by Anna Yeatman; Chapter 2 The Man and the Citizen: the Pluralization of Civil Personae in Early Modern German Natural Law by Ian Hunter; Chapter 3 Reassembling Civilization: State-formation, Subjectivity, Security, Power by Robert van Krieken; Chapter 4 Without Exception: Democracy and Sovereignty After Carl Schmitt by Charles Barbour; Chapter 5 Anti-security Personae: from David Dyzenhaus's Human Rights Lawyer to Giorgio Agamben's illuminato by David Saunders; Chapter 6 Doubt, Ambiguity and Subject Formation by Paul Hoggett and Nigel Williams; Chapter 7 The Subject 'At the Gates of the Polis': Theorizing Transitional Civic Order from the Site of Trauma by Magdalena Zolkos; Chapter 8 Self-preservation and the Idea of the State by Anna Yeatman; Chapter 9 Society, State, Security, and Subject Formation: The Emergence of Modern Neutrality Society and the Formation of the Types of Subjects it Requires by Gary Wickham and Barbara Evers; Chapter 10 Anti-colonial Nationalisms: the Case of India by Benjamin Zachariah; Chapter 11 The Sense of Existing and its Political Implications (on Francois Flahault's 'General Anthropology') by Jeffrey Minson; Bibliography.

State, Security, and Subject Formation brings together leading scholars to examine the question of how to secure the conditions for a civil and peaceful life together.

'One of the distinctive themes animating this interdisciplinary collection of essays is that what the editors refer to as the fragile character of the 'civic project' - the goal of creating a political order characterized by peaceful coexistence on equal terms for all participants. This theme is explored across a range of historical periods and theoretical approaches, but is also aimed at shedding light on our current political situation. At a time when the idea of the secular state is once again a controversial category, this is a timely and thoughtful collection'. Duncan Ivison, University of Sydney