Wayward Contracts: The Crisis of Political Obligation in England, 1640-1674Princeton University Press, 2009 M01 10 - 392 páginas Why did the language of contract become the dominant metaphor for the relationship between subject and sovereign in mid-seventeenth-century England? In Wayward Contracts, Victoria Kahn takes issue with the usual explanation for the emergence of contract theory in terms of the origins of liberalism, with its notions of autonomy, liberty, and equality before the law. |
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... Charles Herle, an outspoken parliamentarian, remarked that “Every experience tells us that interests are better state security than oaths.” The royalist Samuel Butler was even more cynical: “Oaths and obligations in the affairs of the ...
... Charles II. Royalist writers of prose romance countered Hobbes's argument about fear of violent death with an emphasis on the role of the aesthetic emotions of pity and fear in contributing to the Restoration. In the aftermath of the ...
... Charles dismissed both houses. During the following decade of “personal rule,” Charles attempted to govern by royal prerogative and to raise the funds needed for the unpopular war against the Scots without the consent of Parliament ...
... Charles I. During the Engagement controversy, when Parliament sought to secure allegiance to the new, de facto government, contemporaries feared that the appeal to self-interest would lead to the pretense of consent. In Leviathan ...
... Charles Taylor also equated modernity with “the new centrality of constructed orders and artifacts in mental and moral life,” and a new understanding of language as constructing not only the object of knowledge but also the subject who ...
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