Samuel Pufendorf's The Present State of Germany was first published in 1667 (under the pseudonym Severinus de Monzambano) and immediately became one of the most notorious works in Europe for the next half century. Its trenchant critique of previous theories of the Holy Roman Empire elicited both attacks and defenses, and it also anticipated many elements in Pufendorf's subsequent writings on natural law, history, and religion. Samuel Pufendorf (1632–1694) taught natural law and was court historian in both Germany and Sweden. Michael J. Seidler is Professor of Philosophy at Western Kentucky University. Please note: This title is available as an ebook for purchase on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and iTunes.

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The Present State of Germany,Pufendorf, Samuel,Liberty Fund, Incorporated

Present State of Germany, The (Natural Law Paper)

Samuel Freiherr von Pufendorf

Pufendorf, Samuel

Amagi Books

Natural law and enlightenment classics, Indianapolis, ©2007

United States, United States of America

1st Edition Thus, 2007-02-28

1st Edition Thus, PT, 2007

Indianapolis, 2014

Illustrated, 2007

February 28, 2007

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出版日期: 2007.02

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<p>Although <i><b>The Present State of Germany</b></i> was first made available in English over three centuries ago, it has been virtually unavailable in English since the period of the American Founding.</p>
<p>By 1696, Pufendorf was well known in England as a staunch defender of the Protestant cause and as one of the renovators of natural law. His writings were familiar to such luminaries as Locke and figured prominently in James Tyrell’s <i>Patriarcha non Monarcha</i> (1681).</p>
<p>The editor of this volume, Michael J. Seidler, describes this work of Pufendorf as “an account of German constitutional law detailing the historical relations between the Emperor and the Estates as well as an examination of the legitimating foundations of Imperial authority, a general analysis of the nature and requirements of political sovereignty, and a reconceptualization of the different forms of political order. . . . Its central distinction between so-called regular and irregular states, resting on the question of the locus of sovereignty, demotes the traditional political categories into mere administrative possibilities and thereby creates a more general problematic of freedom and authority with which we are still wrestling today. That is, it raises, at a very early stage in the contractarian tradition which we have inherited, the basic question of how effective political unity is compatible with competing values of diversity and individual liberty.”</p>
<p><b>Samuel Pufendorf</b> (1632–1694) was one of the most important figures in early-modern political thought. An exact contemporary of Locke and Spinoza, he transformed the natural law theories of Grotius and Hobbes, developed striking ideas of toleration and of the relationship between church and state, and wrote extensive political histories and analyses of the constitution of the German empire.</p>
<p><b>Edmund Bohun</b> (1645–1699) was an English press license official and political writer who ended up as chief justice of South Carolina.</p>
<p><b>Michael J. Seidler</b> is Professor of Philosophy at Western Kentucky University.</p>
<p><b>Knud Haakonssen</b> is Professor of Intellectual History at the University of Sussex, England.</p>

Although The Present State of Germany was first made available in English over three centuries ago, it has been virtually unavailable in English since the period of the American Founding. By 1696, Pufendorf was well known in England as a staunch defender of the Protestant cause and as one of the renovators of natural law. His writings were familiar to such luminaries as Locke and figured prominently in James Tyrellʹs Patriarcha non Monarcha (1681). The editor of this volume, Michael J. Seidler, describes this work of Pufendorf as "an account of German constitutional law detailing the historical relations between the Emperor and the Estates as well as an examination of the legitimating foundations of Imperial authority, a general analysis of the nature and requirements of political sovereignty, and a reconceptualization of the different forms of political order ... Its central distinction between so-called regular and irregular states, resting on the question of the locus of sovereignty, demotes the traditional political categories into mere administrative possibilities and thereby creates a more general problematic of freedom and authority with which we are still wrestling today. That is, it raises, at a very early stage in the contractarian tradition which we have inherited, the basic question of how effective political unity is compatible with competing values of diversity and individual liberty."--Publisher description

First made available in English over three centuries ago, this book comes from an author who was well known in England as a staunch defender of the Protestant cause and as one of the renovators of natural law. His writings were familiar to such luminaries as Locke and figured prominently in James Tyrell's "Patriarcha non Monarcha" (1681).

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