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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... early modern writers argued that the state was an artifact that was brought into being by a powerful, if sometimes fictional, speech act. For these reasons, I argue, early modern contract theory is best thought of as a radically new ...
... modern scholars. In these tumultuous years, early modern men and women experienced at first hand—and argued intensely about—the violence and artistry required to fashion the contracting subject.2 For men and women of all political ...
... early modern political thought. It focuses on the various discourses of contractual obligation that arose in the aftermath of the Protestant Reformation and the emerging system of nation-states, at the intersection of what the ...
... early modern period. Neither Aristotle nor Aquinas accorded any role to contract in the establishment of government. Although Aristotle recognized the role of consent in some forms of government, he did not put forward a contractual ...
... guarantee of its effectiveness and legitimacy. With this argument, we have come a long way from Aristotelian and Thomist notions of virtue and of politics. THE PSYCHOLOGY OF CONTRACT Even as early modern thinkers emphasized Chapter 12 • 1.
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