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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... just life. —Theodor Adorno, “Commitment” There is an element of the world-building capacity of man in the human faculty of making and keeping promises. —Hannah Arendt, On Revolution This page intentionally left blank.
... Promise to Contract Shipmoney and the Imagination of Disaster Henry Parker and the Metaphor of Contract Falkland, Chillingworth, Digges, and the Fiction of Representation CHAPTER 5. Violence Prophesying Revolution The Metaphorical Plot ...
... promises and breach of contract were hurled from all sides, contemporaries did not always agree—in fact, this was at the heart of the conflict—what kind of agreement had been broken. Was political obligation best thought of in terms of ...
... promises or verbal contracts. Seventeenth-century men and women wondered whether a verbal promise was legally binding, and if so, whether because of conscience or because of some material evidence—some “consideration” or benefit— which ...
... promises must be kept; in the second case, contracts were to be kept if there had been some exchange of “consideration” or benefit. If the contract of conscience was associated with casuistry, the contract of self-interest was linked to ...
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