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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... Exception Reasoning about the Exception: Dialectic and Equivocation Taking Exception to Pity and Fear Political Theology and Tragedy CHAPTER 11. Conclusion Notes Index 134 138 141 147 151 154 166 171 174 177 180 185 189 192 196 198 207 ...
... exceptions to positive law. This anxiety was a powerful spur to recasting conscience in terms of the common law discourse of contract or in the everyday language of interest. For some contemporary writers, interest replaced conscience ...
... exception is Annabel Patterson's Early Modern Liberalism, an exemplary account of the contribution of both literary and political texts to the creation of “liberal” rights. But, perhaps as part of her effort to present a less abstract ...
... exceptions to the moral law that promises should be kept. All of a sudden it became necessary to rethink the basis of political association, political obligation, and the respective duties to God and sovereign. Aiming to provide a ...
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