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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... civil war in 1642 set off a dramatic crisis of political obligation. All of a sudden, a majority of English subjects were confronted with a choice—king or parliament?—that they had not previously encountered. This choice in turn ...
... civil war. The royalist pamphleteer Dudley Digges satirized the contractualist fiction of self-determination as a kind of anarchist fantasy of self-creation: “As for Power inherent in the People, how should we imagine such a thing ...
... civil war. Although Hobbes rejected republicanism, he too presented a political contract as the solution to political anarchy: while lamenting the pervasive reduction of aristocratic glory to petty self-interested calculation, he argued ...
... civil war brought these discourses—and their speakers—into explosive contact. On the parliamentary side, covenant theologians and Independents such as Milton joined with lawyers and natural rights theorists to declare their individual ...
... civil war, royalists in particular struggled to make sense of the recent conflict and to provide new, more compelling accounts of political obligation. Many of these writers were eager to address the obvious role of the passions and ...
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