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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... notions of conscience, subjectivity, and ethical responsibility. Contract theory was implicated in the ongoing battle between Rome and Israel, between the warrior ethos and the slave mentality, which involved the sublimation of the ...
... notion of government, ridiculed this notion of the political contract as a preposterously artificial conception of human relations. And he mocked Hobbes's implicit equation of contract with consent: “I consent with him,” he wrote in his ...
... notion of covenant and the other to a secular notion of contract; one emphasized the claims of individual conscience, while the other stressed the role of calculation, self-interest, and the natural right of self-preservation. In the ...
... notions of obligation. Hobbes was shocking to contemporaries because his version of the political contract authorized consent to de facto political power. Milton was equally shocking because his version of contract justified revoking ...
... notion of a mixed or limited government, the dominium politicum et regale. In sixteenth-century England, none of these arguments amounted to a full-fledged contractualist theory of government, according to which individuals in a state ...
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