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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The Crisis of Political Obligation in England, 1640-1674 Victoria Kahn. This page intentionally left blank Contents Acknowledgments Abbreviations CHAPTER 1. Introduction 1 From Virtue to.
... Virtue to Contract 8 The Psychology of Contract Poetics and the Contract of Genre The Usual Story The Road Ahead PART I An Anatomy of Contract, 1590–1640 CHAPTER 2. Language and the Bond of Conscience Natural Rights Theory: The Social ...
... virtue that was one source of violent conflict. The outbreak of civil war made seventeenth-century men and women reexamine the motives for obedience to the sovereign power. In the preceding decades, supporters of the king had analogized ...
... virtue as virtu`. If we had to choose, we might say that the mid-seventeenth-century English representative of the ... virtue of its exclusive emphasis on the individual conscience, while natural rights theory contributed to the ...
... VIRTUE TO CONTRACT This book explores how the metaphor of contract emerged as the locus of a culture-wide debate about the grounds of political obligation, and how contract came to articulate some of the most radical innovations of ...
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