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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... understanding of the state. The novelty of the seventeenth-century preoccupation with the artifice of political contract and the linguistic act of consent can best be appreciated when considered against the two most prominent ...
... understanding of justice and of contracts. “But when we talk of just,” Ireton asserted, “it is not so much of what is sinful before God,” but what is “just according to the foundation of justice between man and man.” He then went on to ...
... understanding of language as constructing not only the object of knowledge but also the subject who knows.37 In a similar vein, historians of science have located a “maker's knowledge” tradition in the seventeenth century: influenced by ...
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