Wayward Contracts: The Crisis of Political Obligation in England, 1640-1674Princeton University Press, 2009 M01 10 - 392 pages 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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Wayward Contracts: The Crisis of Political Obligation in England, 1640-1674 Victoria Kahn Limited preview - 2016 |
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Wayward Contracts: The Crisis of Political Obligation in England, 1640-1674 Victoria Kahn No preview available - 2004 |