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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... English literature—Early modern, 1500–1700—History and criticism. 2. Politics and literature—Great Britain—History—17th century. 3. Great Britain—Politics and government—1642–1660. 4. Great Britain—Politics and government—1660–1688. 5 ...
... English subjects were confronted with a choice—king or parliament?—that they had not previously encountered. This choice in turn required that individuals examine, discover, or refashion the bonds of obligation. As Philip Hunton ...
... English representative of the first was Milton; of the second, Hobbes. In fact, however, the political crisis of the civil war brought these discourses—and their speakers—into explosive contact. On the parliamentary side, covenant ...
... English “radical imagination” of a new kind of political subject—a subject located between the discourses of conscience and natural rights, promise and contract.8 This was a subject motivated not only by the claims of conscience but ...
... English contemporaries, they did not yet conceive of the creation of the state as wholly artificial. Instead, they conceived of political obligation as arising “from the nature of things and the will of God.”20 In the Tudor and Stuart ...
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