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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... Voluntary Servitude The Slave Contract The Law of the Heart Free Consent PART II A Poetics of Contract, 1640–1674 CHAPTER 4. Imagination Five Knights: From Promise to Contract Shipmoney and the Imagination of Disaster Henry Parker and ...
... voluntary servitude seemed like a good thing to write about. At Irvine, I owe a special debt to Brook Thomas for reading early drafts of some of my thoughts on Hobbes and natural rights, for timely bibliographical suggestions, and for ...
... voluntarily. And, in fact, parliamentary debates, sermons, and theological tracts show an explosion of the language of contract in these years. In this light, the juridical murder of the king in 1649 appears less as an anomaly than as ...
... voluntary but absolute obedience to the sovereign. In the process, natural rights theory worked to undermine the claims of conscience, even as the divine speech act of covenant theology was adopted as a model by the secular absolute ...
... voluntarily into such a contract from some prior, undetermined state is a heuristic fiction, but in the first case the fiction of contract masks the coercive or disciplinary function of culture, while in the second case this contract is ...
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