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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The Crisis of Political Obligation in England, 1640-1674 Victoria Kahn. Contents Acknowledgments Abbreviations CHAPTER 1. Introduction 1 From Virtue to Contract 8 The Psychology of Contract Poetics and the Contract of Genre The Usual ...
The Crisis of Political Obligation in England, 1640-1674 Victoria Kahn. Acknowledgments xii • The subject matter of this book has followed the career of Helene Silverberg who, in the course of its writing, moved from Political Science to ...
The Crisis of Political Obligation in England, 1640-1674 Victoria Kahn. one that was manifest across a wide range of texts and genres in midseventeenth-century England. In revising the usual accounts of contract theory, I take a cue from ...
The Crisis of Political Obligation in England, 1640-1674 Victoria Kahn. breach of contract in taking up arms against his subjects in 1642. By 1652 Robert Filmer would claim disapprovingly that “original power by nature in the people ...
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