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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... criticism. 2. Politics and literature—Great Britain—History—17th century. 3. Great Britain—Politics and government—1642–1660. 4. Great Britain—Politics and government—1660–1688. 5. Contracts—Great Britain—History—17th century. 6 ...
... criticism helped to sharpen my argument. Mary Murrell was a loyal and supportive editor, and Brian MacDonald was a scrupulous copyeditor. In the process of writing this book, I have had many occasions to be grateful to Liz Huyck, my ...
... critics of the king drew on the marriage contract as an analogy for the political contract but inverted it, arguing that the king was the wife or servant of the people. Milton famously invoked the affective ideal of companionate ...
... critics of Charles began to use the language of economic contract to describe the political relation of sovereign and subject. Increasingly, the common lawyers, some of whom were members of Parliament, joined forces with other ...
... critics extended to other genres as well, could result not from the cause-and-effect sequence of the plot but from paralogism or faulty reasoning. The resolution of the plot could depend on what Aristotle in the Rhetoric called ...
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