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Arbitrary rule : slavery, tyranny, and the power of life and death /
Slavery appears as a figurative construct during the English revolution of the mid-seventeenth century, and again in the American and French revolutions, when radicals represent their treatment as a form of political slavery. What, if anything, does figurative, political slavery have to do with tran...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago ; London :
The University of Chicago Press,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Ancient Greek and Roman slaveries
- Political slavery and barbarism
- Tyranny, slavery, and the despots
- The tyrant as conqueror and antityranny
- Tyranny, despotical rule, and natural slavery in Aristotle's Politics
- Roman antityranny
- Appropriation and disavowal of slavery
- Sixteenth-century French and English resistance theory
- Servility and tyranny in Montaigne and La Boétie, Goodman and Ponet
- Spanish tyranny, English resistance
- Collective enslavement and freedom in Vindiciae
- Slavery in Smith's De republica anglorum and Bodin's République
- Resistance
- Human sacrifice, barbarism, and Buchanan's Jephtha
- Barbarism, sacrifice, and civic virtue
- Calvin, Cicero, and wrongful vows
- Does Jephtha hold the sword?
- Blood(less) sacrifice
- Antityranny, slavery, and revolution
- Genesis, dominion, and natural slavery
- Servility, tyranny, and asiatic monarchy in 1 Samuel 8
- Genesis, dominion, and servitude in "Paradise lost"
- Ears bored with an awl in revolutionary England
- Revolution and liberty cap
- Freeborn sons or slaves?
- Debating analogically
- Freeborn citizens and contract
- Fathers and resistance
- Antislavery and Bodin's preemption of antityranny
- Parker's antityranny and antislavery
- The power of life and death
- Brutus and his sons: lawful punishment or paternal power?
- Debating the familial origins of the power of life and death
- Debating divine sanction for the power and life and death
- Power, no-power, and the English revolution
- Etymology as ideology: servire from servare, or enslaving as saving
- Nakedness, history, and bare life
- Nakedness
- Nationalization of natural slavery and original sin
- De Bry's Europeanized Adam and Eve
- Privative comparison in Paradise lost
- Hobbes's state of nature and "hard" privativism
- The golden-edenic privative age
- Cicero's savage age
- Savagery and the Euro-colonial privative age
- Ancestral liberties, inherited freedom
- Hobbes's state of nature and libertas
- Frontispieces
- Hobbes, slavery, and despotical rule
- Liberty, slavery, and tyranny discomfited
- Preservation of life, civility, and servitude
- Hobbes's female-free family
- Servants and slaves
- Locke's "On slavery," despotical power, and tyranny
- Antityranny, not antidespotism
- Hobbes, Locke, and the power of life and death
- Reading "Of slavery"
- Reading Locke rewriting power/no-power
- Hebrew and chattel slavery
- Slaves and tyrants.