Wayward contracts : the crisis of political obligation in England, 1640-1674 /

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"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." "Drawing on literature as well as political theory, state trials...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kahn, Victoria Ann
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2004.
Temas:
1500-1700
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Politics and literature > Great Britain > History > 17th century.
Contracts > Great Britain > History > 17th century.
Political obligation > History > 17th century.
Social contract > History > 17th century.
Contracts in literature.
Politique et littérature > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Contrats > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Obligation politique > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Contrat social > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Contrats dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Contracts
English literature > Early modern
Contracts in literature
Political obligation
Politics and government
Politics and literature
Social contract
Great Britain > Politics and government > 1642-1660.
Great Britain > Politics and government > 1660-1688.
Grande-Bretagne > Politique et gouvernement > 1642-1660.
Grande-Bretagne > Politique et gouvernement > 1660-1688.
Great Britain
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • From virtue to contract
  • 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 contract and the linguistic contract
  • The Common Law: Magna Carta and economic contract
  • Covenant theology: divine speech acts and the covenant of metaphor
  • CHAPTER 3. The passions and 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 the metaphor of contract
  • Falkland, Chillingworth, Digges, and the fiction of representation
  • CHAPTER 5. Violence:
  • Prophesying revolution
  • The metaphorical plot
  • CHAPTER 6. Metalanguage:
  • The problem of Essex
  • Hobbe's critique of romance
  • The contract of Mimesis
  • Hobbesian fictions
  • Method and metalanguage
  • Hobbes's readers or inescapable romance
  • CHAPTER 7. Gender:
  • Political contract and the marriage contract
  • The politics of romance
  • Passion and interest
  • Contract on trial
  • The sexual contract
  • The paralogism of romance
  • CHAPTER 8. Embodiment:
  • Resistless love and hate
  • Paradise Lost and the bond of nature
  • Pity or fear of violent death
  • CHAPTER 9. Sympathy:
  • Wise compliance
  • The politics of pity
  • Sympathy between men
  • CHAPTER 10. Critique:
  • Reason of state
  • Samson as exception
  • Reasoning about the exception: dialectic and equivocation
  • Taking exception to pity and fear
  • Political theology and tragedy.

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