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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... Metaphor of Contract Falkland, Chillingworth, Digges, and the Fiction of Representation CHAPTER 5. Violence Prophesying Revolution The Metaphorical Plot xi xiii 13 15 20 25 29 31 33 41 48 57 60 64 73 81 83 85 90 95 104 112 113 120 ...
... metaphor—its capacity to effect semantic transfers and establish new, polyvalent relationships of meaning—became a way of exploring the continuously creative power of the political contract. Along with this heightened sense of the ...
... metaphor of contract emerged as the locus of a culture-wide debate about the grounds of political obligation, and how contract came to articulate some of the most radical innovations of early modern political thought. It focuses on the ...
... metaphor in the preceding decades. And the analogy worked the other way as well. In the Introduction to Leviathan, Hobbes made it clear that consent to the political contract depended on consent to a literary contract: a prior agreement ...
... metaphor and narrative. Hobbes famously claimed to have modeled his construction of the commonwealth on Euclidean mathematics, and most modern commentators have followed his cue. Ernst Bloch's comment on the epistemological assumptions ...
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