Wayward Contracts : : The Crisis of Political Obligation in England, 1640-1674 / / Victoria Kahn.
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,...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009] ©2004 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- CHAPTER 1. Introduction
- PART ONE: An Anatomy of Contract, 1590-1640
- CHAPTER 2. Language and the Bond of Conscience
- CHAPTER 3. The Passions and Voluntary Servitude
- PART TWO: A Poetics of Contract, 1640-1674
- CHAPTER 4. Imagination
- CHAPTER 5. Violence
- CHAPTER 6. Metalanguage
- CHAPTER 7. Gender
- CHAPTER 8. Embodiment
- CHAPTER 9. Sympathy
- CHAPTER 10. Critique
- CHAPTER 11. Conclusion
- Notes
- Index