The leading political and legal historiography of early modernity is mainly built on Anglophone discussion. The lack of attention to German politics and history has led to accounts that get the formation of the modern state wrong. Martti Koskenniemi’s book offers significant correction to the situation. He highlights the German natural lawyers’ role as a group, which significantly contributed to the formation of early modern political and legal vocabulary. Koskenniemi devotes a whole chapter of his new book to an analysis of the transformations of German natural law from the beginning of the 16th century to 1758, to the publication of Emer de Vattel’s Droit des gens...

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早期现代德国法律想象的背景：论德国自然法的转变——管理国家机器第 11 章：国家机器的科学

早期现代性的主要政治和法律史学主要建立在英语讨论之上。对德国政治和历史的缺乏关注导致了对现代国家形成的误解。Martti Koskenniemi 的书对这种情况进行了重大修正。他强调了德国自然律师作为一个群体的作用，这对早期现代政治和法律词汇的形成做出了重大贡献。Koskenniemi 在他的新书中用了一整章来分析从 16 世纪初到 1758 年德国自然法的转变，以及 Emer de Vattel 的Droit des gens的出版......