Savage Republic: De Indis of Hugo Grotius, Republicanism and Dutch Hegemony within the Early Modern World-System (c. 1600-1619)

Author:   Eric Wilson
Publisher:   Brill
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9789004167889


Pages:   534
Publication Date:   31 August 2008
Format:   Hardback
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Savage Republic: De Indis of Hugo Grotius, Republicanism and Dutch Hegemony within the Early Modern World-System (c. 1600-1619)


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Intended for the professional academic and graduate student, this book is the first to utilize the methodology of “New Stream” legal scholarship in an extended critical “exegesis” of Hugo Grotius’ De Indis (c.1604-6). De Indis is predicated upon a two-fold discursive strategy: (i) investing “private” Trading Companies with “public” international legal personality, and (ii) collapsing the distinction between “private” and “public” warfare. Governing the operation of textual interpretation is De Indis’ status as a republican treatise juridically legitimating an early modern Trans-National corporation (the VOC) that served as an agent of a “primitive” system of global governance, the early Capitalist World-Economy. The application of New Stream scholarship reveals that the republican signature of De Indis consists of a discursive “micro-oscillation” between the “thick” ontology of Late Scholasticism (“Utopia”) and the “thin” ontology of Civic Humanism (“Apology”) wholly appropriate to the governance requirements of the embryonic Modern World-System.

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Author:   Eric Wilson
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Martinus Nijhoff
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   1.091kg
ISBN:  

9789004167889


ISBN 10:   9004167889
Pages:   534
Publication Date:   31 August 2008
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Preface; Introduction on Heterogeneity and the Origin(s) of De Indis of Hugo Grotius; Chapter One: The Genealogy of Grotian Morals: The Grotian Heritage, Natural Law, and Hegemony; Chapter Two: ‘The Force of Law’: Critical Legal Studies and Deconstruction; Chapter Three: Arche-trace (I)/imperium: Holland as Hegemon within the Early Modern World-System; Chapter Four: Arche-Trace (II)/Dominium: Divisible Sovereignty and the VOC as Corporate Sovereign; Chapter Five: Trace (I)/Respublica: Apologia and Humanism; Chapter Six: TRACE (II): Utopia and Late Scholasticism; Chapter Seven: ‘Concerning the Indies’: Ius Naturale, Privateers, Pirates and Anti-Systemic Movements; Chapter Eight: ‘Concerning the Indians’: Ius Naturale, Infidels, and Natives; Conclusion: The New Law of the Earth.

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