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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... aesthetic emotions of pity and fear in contributing to the Restoration. In the aftermath of the Restoration, Milton ... aesthetics. The intersection of the religious discourse of conscience and the secular discourse of natural right ...
... aesthetic appreciation rather than political judgment. The seventeenth century witnessed a broad cultural shift from a discourse of innate obligations to those based on the shared conventions of language and a pragmatic negotiation of ...
... aesthetic pleasures associated with the work of art. If contract theory imagined a subject, motivated by his passions, who consents to bind himself, these works solicited the reader's or spectator's aesthetic passions of pity and fear ...
... aesthetics were launched at approximately the same time.”59 The crucial point for Strauss was that Hobbes's voluntarist, relativist, and proto-aesthetic notion of the good contributed to the death of the classical notion of politics. A ...
... aesthetics, construed not only as the study of human artifacts but also of the affective response to such artifacts. As such, contract signaled a “loss of [the] hermeneutic power” that had once been associated with classical notions of ...
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