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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... Hobbes's Critique of Romance The Contract of Mimesis Hobbesian Fictions Method and Metalanguage Hobbes's Readers or Inescapable Romance CHAPTER 7. Gender Political Contract and the Marriage Contract The Politics of Romance Passion and ...
... Hobbes's implicit equation of contract with consent: “I consent with him,” he wrote in his Observations on Hobbes, “about the rights of exercising government, but I cannot agree with him to his means of acquiring it.”4 Mid-seventeenth ...
... Hobbes and those royalists who were influenced by him marshaled these same discourses of covenant and contract ... Hobbes's materialist psychology of the passions and interests demanded a response from his opponents, his frankly ...
... Hobbes's Leviathan scandalously included no mention of the recent regicide, while Milton's Tenure of Kings and Magistrates just as scandalously urged the execution of the king. But Hobbes and Milton also articulated different versions ...
... Hobbes and the English revolution had to go as well. This is because in The Machiavellian Moment Pocock reads Hobbes primarily as a politically conservative thinker. He fails to mention that Hobbes's discourse of natural rights and ...
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