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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... but 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.
... Tenure of Kings and Magistrates just as scandalously urged the execution of the king. But Hobbes and Milton also articulated different versions of the new discourse of contract. Like Hobbes, Milton was interested in presenting his ...
... Tenure was one of the symptoms of the passionate misconstruction of contract. For Milton, the absolute subjection to the sovereign advocated by Hobbes in Leviathan was another. In the evolving vocabulary of the period, a passion that ...
... Tenure of Kings and Magistrates, Milton celebrated Senecan tragedy as a model for that same regicide. Royalists such as Davenant and Cowley wrote epics in an effort to reclaim heroism for the Stuart cause, while Hobbes composed a ...
... Tenure of Kings and Magistrates. Chapter 6 takes up Hobbes's interpretation of the political contract, an interpretation that depends on enforcing an antithetical regime of metaphor, mimesis, and the passions in defense of absolute ...
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