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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... Milton, Complete Prose Works of John Milton, general ed. Don M. Wolfe, 8 vols. (New Haven, 1953–82). Thomas Hobbes, Behemoth or the Long Parliament, ed. Ferdinand To ̈nnies, with an introduction by Stephen Holmes (Chicago and London ...
... what by agreement they themselves ordained?”5 In contrast, in The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates, Milton argued that a republican government based on “power inherent in the people” was the solution to the faction and Introduction • 3.
... 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 theologians and Independents such as Milton ...
... Milton is the mirror image of Hobbes. In the mid-seventeenth-century, I argue, Milton and Hobbes looked more alike than they do now. Although Hobbes defended absolutism, and Milton espoused republicanism, both were seen as radical ...
... Milton argued that passion was the source of genuine consent, so that its absence was grounds for breach of contract. For Hobbes, the regicide advocated by Milton in The Tenure was one of the symptoms of the passionate misconstruction ...
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