The final chapter of To the Uttermost Parts of the Earth brings the book’s diachronic story of (one of) the idiomatic languages of ius gentium and ius naturale to a close. The story of the law of nature and of nations in its 18^th-century German usages is not exactly one of rise and fall, apogee and nadir. Rather, it is (for international lawyers at least) a salutary revisiting of a connection between natural law and state-making, and between law of nations and the well-ordered Polizeistaat, which remains recessed in the historical recollection of 20th- and 21st-century international law’s historical consciousness. While 20th-century international law reinvented its origin stories in the Salamanca Scholastic and the Dutch Golden Age, the important lineage of contemporary vocabularies and genres of international legal and political thought with the German sciences of the state as they developed after 1648 is rarely recognized.1¹ These ways of thinking about and, in some sense, enacting and producing public power and state-concepts have become the subject of revived interest and inquiry in histories of economic and political thought,2² inspired in part by Foucault’s influential resurfacing of this discourse in his lectures at the Collège de France.3³ The figures at the centre of chapter 12’s narrative, Achenwall and von Justi, were well known in their time, but rapidly consigned to obscurity even within German texts by the end of the 19th century.4⁴ Indeed, if Albion Small is to be believed in his monumental account of Cameralist thought from 1909, despite the fact that there was ‘no more virile [sic] political thinking in Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries’, late 19th-century public lawyers such as Bluntschli ‘effectively cancel[ed] the cameralists’ from their accounts.5⁵

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“就像国家科学花园里的一棵树”：从国家科学学会到外部公法第 12 章：自然法的终结：德国自由 1734-1821

《到地球的最深处》的最后一章结束了本书关于（其中一种）惯用语言ius gentium和ius naturale的历时故事。自然法和民族法在 18 世纪的德国用法中的故事并不完全是^兴衰、远地点和最低点的故事。相反，它（至少对国际律师而言）有益地重新审视了自然法与国家制定之间以及国际法与秩序井然的Polizeistaat之间的联系，它仍然隐藏在对 20 世纪和 21 世纪国际法的历史意识的历史回忆中。虽然 20 世纪的国际法在萨拉曼卡学术和荷兰黄金时代重塑了其起源故事，但在 1648 年之后发展起来的德国国家科学与当代词汇和国际法律和政治思想流派的重要血统却很少得到认可。 1 ¹这些思考以及在某种意义上制定和产生公共权力和国家概念的方式已成为经济和政治思想史重新引起兴趣和探究的主题，2 ²福柯在法兰西学院的演讲中对这一话语的影响力重新浮出水面的部分灵感来自于他。^{3 3}第 12 章叙述的中心人物阿亨沃尔和冯·尤斯蒂在他们的时代是众所周知的，但即使在其内部也很快就被默默无闻地埋没了。 19 世纪末的德文文本。^{4 4}的确，如果 Albion Small 对他 1909 年以来对摄影家思想的不朽描述是可信的，尽管事实上“欧洲在17 世纪和 18 世纪”，19 世纪后期的公共律师，如 Bluntschli，“有效地从他们的账户中取消[ed]摄影师”。^{5 5}