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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... motives for obedience to the sovereign power. In the preceding decades, supporters of the king had analogized the ... motive for political obligation. The crisis of allegiance was thus inseparable from what we might call a crisis of ...
... motive for individual consent. The goal was to turn the problem into a solution: to recast self-love as the spur to self-interest, to join fear of violent death and rational consent, channeling the one and promoting the other. In the ...
... motive and purpose of political association. In De cive Hobbes observed that individuals “give their consent out of hatred, fear, hope, love or any other passion rather than reason.”29 In The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce Milton ...
... motives for entering into a contract, for those aiming to counteract the Hobbesian emphasis on fear. Chapters 7 through 10 explore the ways in which literary authors of the period intervene in the crisis of political obligation ...
... motive for entering into a political contract.19 This minimalism in turn focused attention on the human realm of conventional agreements, the realm of the secondary law of nature. Although the principles of primary natural law—including ...
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