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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... of the king in 1649 appears less as an anomaly than as the logical conclusion of the new discourse of contract and, in particular, of the king's perceived breach of contract in taking up arms against his subjects Chapter 2 • 1.
... appear in tandem without any hint of contradiction. At other times, they are used separately and strategically with a more acute awareness of the different traditions out of which they emerge. These are helpful cautions, but they do not ...
... appears in book 2, chapter 16, of De jure belli, “On Interpretation.” Here we see that Grotius was particularly anxious to establish criteria regarding the “objective” or socially determined meaning of words, criteria that would then ...
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