Mark Somos and Anne Peters, "The State of Nature: Histories of an Idea" (Brill, 2021)
b"The phrase, \\u201cstate of nature\\u201d, has been used over centuries to describe the uncultivated state of lands and animals, nudity, innocence, heaven and hell, interstate relations, and the locus of pre- and supra-political rights, such as the right to resistance, to property, to create and leave polities, and the freedom of religion, speech, and opinion, which may be reactivated or reprioritised when the polity and its laws fail. Combining intellectual history with current concerns, Mark Somos and Anne Peters's book\\xa0The State of Nature: Histories of an Idea\\xa0(Brill, 2021) together fourteen essays on the past, present and possible future applications of the legal fiction known as the state of nature.\\nMark Somos, Ph.D. (2007 Harvard, 2014 Leiden), holds the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft\\u2019s Heisenberg position. He wrote\\xa0Secularisation and the Leiden Circle\\xa0(Brill, 2011) and\\xa0American States of Nature: The Origins of Independence, 1761\\u20131775\\xa0(Oxford, 2019).\\nAnne Peters, Ph.D. (1994 Freiburg), is Director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, a Professor at Heidelberg, Freie Universit\\xe4t Berlin, and Basel, and L. Bates Lea Global Law Professor at the University of Michigan.\\nAlexandra Ortolja-Baird is Lecturer in Digital History and Culture at the University of Portsmouth. She tweets at @timetravelallie.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices\\nSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/law"