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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... conditions of its emergence. As I show in the following chapters, Nietzsche was far closer to the truth—far closer, that is, to the historically specific imaginative experience of mid-seventeenth-century Englishmen and women—than most ...
... condition not only of subjectivity but of genuine agency and community. Early seventeenth-century writers and readers were aware that particular genres could be construed as beneficial social contracts or coercive ideological fictions ...
... condition in which morals is held to be impossible.38 In this passage Grotius both acknowledged and departed from the widespread medieval view that internal acts are perceivable by God and morally binding for that reason.39 Instead, he ...
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