Wayward Contracts: The Crisis of Political Obligation in England, 1640-1674
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Wayward Contracts: The Crisis of Political Obligation in England, 1640-1674
By (Author) Victoria Kahn
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
29th November 2004
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
820.9434602
Winner of Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies Book Prize 2006
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Hardback
384
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
652g
Description
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 equalit
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Winner of the 2006 Best Book Prize, Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies
Author Bio
Victoria Kahn is Professor of English and Bernie H. Williams Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of "Machiavellian Rhetoric" (Princeton).
