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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... 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 Contents x • CHAPTER 6. Metalanguage The Problem of Essex Contents.
... Problem of Essex Hobbes's Critique of Romance The Contract of Mimesis Hobbesian Fictions Method and Metalanguage Hobbes's Readers or Inescapable Romance CHAPTER 7. Gender Political Contract and the Marriage Contract The Politics of ...
... problem nature has set itself with regard to man? and is it not the real problem of man? —Nietzsche, The Genealogy of Morals A worthy person of our age was accustomed to say, that contracts in writing were invented only to bind villains ...
... problem of motivation, civil war writers turned their attention to the self-regarding passions that were in evidence everywhere around them. For these writers, the passions of self-love and fear of violent death—in short, the desire for ...
... problems as it solved. Some civil war writers wondered whether the individual would rationally consent to the good or irrationally enslave himself to his passions. Others worried that passion and interest, self-aggrandizement and self ...
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