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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... Consent PART II A Poetics of Contract, 1640–1674 CHAPTER 4. Imagination Five Knights: From Promise to Contract Shipmoney and the Imagination of Disaster Henry Parker and the Metaphor of Contract Falkland, Chillingworth, Digges, and the ...
... consents to the political contract, seventeenth-century contract theorists were compelled to create a new political subject ex nihilo. Rather than assuming that government was natural and only needed to be legitimated by consent, early ...
... consent: “I consent with him,” he wrote in his Observations on Hobbes, “about the rights of exercising government, but I cannot agree with him to his means of acquiring it.”4 Mid-seventeenth-century writers disagreed about whether the ...
... consent and the artifice of government undermined conventional notions of obligation. Hobbes was shocking to contemporaries because his version of the political contract authorized consent to de facto political power. Milton was equally ...
... consent can best be appreciated when considered against the two most prominent authorities on politics in the early modern period. Neither Aristotle nor Aquinas accorded any role to contract in the establishment of government. Although ...
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