Savage Republic: de Indis of Hugo Grotius, Republicanism and Dutch Hegemony Within the Early Modern World-System (C. 1600-1619)

Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-90-04-16788-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 534 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 251 mm, Gewicht: 1021 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Legal academics, historians, philosophers, international relations theorists, undergraduate and graduate students in all of these fields.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wilson, Eric

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtstheorie, Rechtsmethodik, Rechtsdogmatik, Rechtsprechungslehre

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.