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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... thinking about political obligation as an agreement individuals entered into voluntarily. And, in fact, parliamentary debates, sermons, and theological tracts show an explosion of the language of contract in these years. In this light ...
... thinking: in March 1642 Parliament passed the Militia Ordinance, which deprived Charles of his authority over the militia, thereby implicitly asserting the right to take up arms against the king. During the spring of 1642 the king was ...
... in practical terms was that, from thinking of politics as a prudential activity, an activity very often linked to a normative conception of virtue, many seventeenth-century men Introduction • 15 Poetics and the Contract of Genre.
... thinking about politics in the early modern period.34 The best seventeenth-century illustration of this is the introduction to Leviathan, where Hobbes compares the creation of the state to God's creation of the world. “For by Art is ...
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