{"product_id":"edges-of-the-state-john-protevi-9781517907969","title":"Edges of the State","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eUsing philosophical and scientific work to engage the perennial question of human nature\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book takes a look at the formation, and edges, of states: their breakdowns and attempts to repair them, and their encounters with non-state peoples. It draws upon anthropology, political philosophy, neuroscience, evolutionary biology, child developmental psychology, and other fields to look at states as projects of constructing \"bodies politic,\" where the civic and the somatic intersect. John Protevi asserts that humans are predisposed to \"prosociality,\" or being emotionally invested in social partners and patterns. With readings from Jean-Jacques Rousseau and James C. Scott; a critique of the assumption of widespread pre-state warfare as a selection pressure for the evolution of human prosociality and altruism; and an examination of the different \"economies of violence\" of state and non-state societies, \u003ci\u003eEdges of the State\u003c\/i\u003e sketches a notion of prosocial human nature and its attendant normative maxims.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Forerunners: Ideas First \u003cbr\u003e Short books of thought-in-process scholarship, where intense analysis, questioning, and speculation take the lead \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Protevi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1517907969\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781517907969\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/02\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 74\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.80h x 4.90w x 0.30d","brand":"John Protevi","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43940066689279,"sku":"9781517907969","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_59033d8d-9e96-4080-946b-ef1be11aafd9.jpg?v=1681445092","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/edges-of-the-state-john-protevi-9781517907969","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}