RHETOR 103B Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Western Standard, Talal Asad
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All societies destroyed and remade by the forces unleashed by european imperialism and industrial capitalism. Social and cultural variety everywhere increasingly responds to and managed by categories brought into by modern forces. Condition of this is the emergence of the world economy. Formation of modern states on european patterns throughout the world as the result. State of nation"s economy at the very center of such practices, related to concepts of increasingly material wealth and social improvement. Only in modern state can we find struggles within and about legal categories that constitute working class politics, politics of gender, politics of sexuality and the politics of procreation. All populations throughout the world are divided into modern states with clearly defined borders. Modern state presupposes the equal citizen as a subject of specific rights. Law becomes means of creating conditions in which equal citizens can do certain things as free agents .
