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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... reading early drafts of some of my thoughts on Hobbes and natural rights, for timely bibliographical suggestions ... readers in the process of writing it. Constance Jordan, Catherine Gimelli Martin, Jason Rosenblatt, and Nancy Struever ...
... readers with a dramatically compelling fiction of the state of nature, an eloquent story of how obligation came to be, and a vivid illustration of the poetic power of contract to bring political obligation into existence ex nihilo. If ...
... readers with a dramatically compelling fiction of the state of nature; a vivid narrative of the psychology of obligation; and a forceful illustration of the power of language to bring obligations into existence ex nihilo. But, for ...
... reader.44 Whether the social contract of mimesis is construed negatively or positively, the idea that readers enter voluntarily into such a contract from some prior, undetermined state is a heuristic fiction, but in the first case the ...
... readers found a powerful metaphor for the voluntary relation of creature to creator, one that in turn generated a providential narrative of exile and redemption.49 In classical Roman moral and rhetorical treatises, early modern readers ...
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