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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... Linguistic Contract The Common Law: Magna Carta and Economic Contract Covenant Theology: Divine Speech Acts and the Covenant of Metaphor CHAPTER 3. The Passions and Voluntary Servitude The Slave Contract The Law of the Heart Free ...
... linguistic promises or verbal contracts. Seventeenth-century men and women wondered whether a verbal promise was legally binding, and if so, whether because of conscience or because of some material evidence—some “consideration” or ...
... linguistic equivalency and transparent calculation (4.28–29). But he also worried that “Metaphors, and senslesse and ambiguous words, are like ignes fatui; and reasoning upon them, is wandering amongst innumerable absurdities; and their ...
... linguistic agreement that promises must be kept. The publication of Leviathan in 1651 proved to be a watershed in the construction of the new political subject. After 1651 many of those who wrote on contract or political obligation were ...
... linguistic convention, and literary form, but the terms of the debate had changed. The multifaceted discourse of contract had separated into Locke's emphasis on rational consent, on the one hand, and Hume's critique of rationalism, on ...
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