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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... Theory: The Social Contract and the Linguistic Contract The Common Law: Magna Carta and Economic Contract Covenant Theology: Divine Speech Acts and the Covenant of Metaphor CHAPTER 3. The Passions and Voluntary Servitude The Slave ...
... theory that I should have discovered a community of readers in the process of writing it. Constance Jordan, Catherine Gimelli Martin, Jason Rosenblatt, and Nancy Struever read a large chunk of the manuscript and gave me encouraging ...
... theory was defined by a struggle over the role of language and representation, and of the passions and interests, in binding and releasing the political subject. Instead of presupposing a rational and autonomous individual who consents ...
... theory, I take a cue from Nietzsche's skeptical remarks in The Genealogy of Morals. “I assume,” he commented acerbically, “we have got over that sentimentalism that would have [the state] begin with a contract.” According to Nietzsche ...
... theory by virtue of its exclusive emphasis on the individual conscience, while natural rights theory contributed to the secularizing of conscience by virtue of its emphasis on passion, self-interest, and purely human agreements. On the ...
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