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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... Nancy Troy was an inspiring example and a supportive friend, as was my sister Lisa Davenport, whose regular telephone salutation was “Are you working?” Acknowledgments xii • The subject matter of this book has Acknowledgments.
... example of this new way of thinking about politics in the early modern period.34 The best seventeenth-century illustration of this is the introduction to Leviathan, where Hobbes compares the creation of the state to God's creation of ...
... examples of authors' calling attention to the literary contract, but this contract was compared with a legal document rather than with the contract of government. A wellknown example is Ben Jonson's Induction to Bartholomew Fair (1614) ...
... example of how the Jews were allowed to break the Sabbath and eat the shewbread in exceptional cases of hunger.27 This example had already figured prominently in English manuals of casuistry and would become shorthand for salus populi ...
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