States Without Nations - Citizenship for Mortals

Klappentext Arguing that the core laws of the nation-state are more about a fear of death than a desire for freedom! Jacqueline Stevens imagines a world in which birthright citizenship! family inheritance! state-sanctioned marriage! and private land ownership are eliminated. Would chaos be the result? Drawing on political theory and history and incorporating contemporary social and economic data! she brilliantly critiques our sentimental attachments to birthright citizenship! inheritance! and marriage and highlights their harmful outcomes! including war! global apartheid! destitution! family misery! and environmental damage. It might be hard to imagine countries without the rules of membership and ownership that have come to define them! but as Stevens shows! conjuring new ways of reconciling our laws with the condition of mortality reveals the flaws of our present institutions and inspires hope for moving beyond them. Zusammenfassung Arguing that the core laws of the nation-state are more about a fear of death than a desire for freedom! Jacqueline Stevens imagines a world in which birthright citizenship! family inheritance! state-sanctioned marriage! and private land ownership are eliminated. Would chaos be the result? Drawing on political theory and history and incorporating contemporary social and economic data! she brilliantly critiques our sentimental attachments to birthright citizenship! inheritance! and marriage and highlights their harmful outcomes! including war! global apartheid! destitution! family misery! and environmental damage. It might be hard to imagine countries without the rules of membership and ownership that have come to define them! but as Stevens shows! conjuring new ways of reconciling our laws with the condition of mortality reveals the flaws of our present institutions and inspires hope for moving beyond them.

Product details

• Authors: Jacqueline Stevens, Stevens Jacqueline
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.05.2011
• EAN: 9780231148771
• ISBN: 978-0-231-14877-1
• No. of pages: 384
• Series: Columbia University Press; New Directions in Critical Theory; New Directions in Critical The; New Directions in Critical Theory
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; PHILOSOPHY / Political, PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Philosophy, civil rights, social and political philosophy, Social, group or collective psychology, Political science and theory, Civics and citizenship