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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... person's circumstances right. —Ernst Bloch, Natural Law and Human Dignity As empirically constructed and produced objects, works of art, even literary ones, point to a practice from which they abstain: the creation of a just life ...
... person of our age was accustomed to say, that contracts in writing were invented only to bind villains, who having no law, justice, or truth, within themselves, would not keep their words, unless such testimonies were given as might ...
... person to be bound to himselfe; because he that can bind, can release; and therefore he that is bound to himselfe onely, is not bound.”27 To resolve this problem of motivation, civil war writers turned their attention to the self ...
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