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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... response from his opponents, his frankly ahistorical hypothesis about the origins of the political contract provided them with new resources. Leviathan opened up ways of looking at human contracts, history, and nature as contingent ...
... response to Hobbes. In the seventeenth-century story of contract presented here, Milton is the mirror image of Hobbes. In the mid-seventeenth-century, I argue, Milton and Hobbes looked more alike than they do now. Although Hobbes ...
... response, Milton famously redefined the Stuart romance as an ideological fiction in Eikonoklastes (1650) when he accused Charles of stealing a prayer from Philip Sidney's prose romance, the Arcadia. Defenders of the king portrayed the ...
... responses to contract theory, we begin to see the lineaments of the eighteenth-century discourse of aesthetics. THE USUAL STORY The multifaceted story of contract I wish to tell differs from the usual accounts of political historians ...
... response to the engagement controversy and to Hobbes's analysis of political obligation in Leviathan. In these romances, Cavendish exposes the sexual contract at the basis of the marriage contract and political contract. Chapter 8 ...
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