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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... coercion. Thus, the great Anglican apologist Richard Hooker described government as founded on the “common consent,” but he also advanced the “historical” argument that conquest could be legitimated by subsequent consent: by such ...
... coercion, force and fraud. The elements of the rhetorical syllogism that are extrinsic to the logic of a plot hint at the arbitrariness of the final resolution.41 The moment of “recognition,” which Aristotle required of tragedy and ...
... coercive or disciplinary function of culture, while in the second case this contract is the condition not only of subjectivity but of genuine agency and community. Early seventeenth-century writers and readers were aware that particular ...
... coercion and consent, and the equation of contract with a kind of procedural or instrumental rationality. Finally, they impose upon these debates the disciplinary division between politics and literature that is in part the product of ...
... coercion. The possibility of binding signification then becomes the precondition of binding oneself politically, the precondition of the irrevocable transfer of rights.36 The centerpiece of Grotius's argument about the relation between ...
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