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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... kind of agreement had been broken. Was political obligation best thought of in terms of a marriage contract between sovereign and subject, an economic contract, a theological covenant, or the implicit contract of the common law or the ...
... kind of political subject—a subject located between the discourses of conscience and natural rights, promise and contract.8 This was a subject motivated not only by the claims of conscience but also by his passions and interests. This ...
... kind of sociopolitical contract.9 In the early eighteenth century, there were still debates about the relationship between politics, linguistic convention, and literary form, but the terms of the debate had changed. The multifaceted ...
... kind of social contract, a set of shared assumptions to which each party consented.40 In the early modern period, the inflection of poetics by rhetoric and social convention could be construed negatively or positively. In the negative ...
... kind of procedural or instrumental rationality. Finally, they impose upon these debates the disciplinary division between politics and literature that is in part the product of these debates. In other words, both historians and ...
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