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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... Marriage Contract The Politics of Romance Passion and Interest Contract on Trial The Sexual Contract The Paralogism of Romance CHAPTER 8. Embodiment Resistless Love and Hate Paradise Lost and the Bond of Nature Pity or Fear of Violent ...
... marriage contract between sovereign and subject, an economic contract, a theological covenant, or the implicit contract of the common law or the ancient constitution? Were human beings naturally sociable, in which case only government ...
... marriage contract as an analogy for the political contract but inverted it, arguing that the king was the wife or servant of the people. Milton famously invoked the affective ideal of companionate marriage as a justification for ...
... associated with Hobbes, about the role of the passions and interests in precipitating the transition out of the state of nature. Margaret Cavendish married Hobbesian self-interest to the passion of love in an effort Chapter 6 • 1.
... married to her subjects, and James I presented himself as the loving father of his people, they intended to convey their natural affection rather than anything like a legally sanctioned relationship. And the sentiment was reciprocated ...
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