Kahn Wayward Contracts

The Crisis of Political Obligation in England, 1640-1674
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ISBN: 978-1-4008-2642-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
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E-Book, Englisch, 392 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Kahn, Victoria

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments xi

Abbreviations xiii

CHAPTER 1. Introduction 1

From Virtue to Contract 8

The Psychology of Contract 13

Poetics and the Contract of Genre 15

The Usual Story 20

The Road Ahead 25

PART I: An Anatomy of Contract,1590-1640 29

CHAPTER 2. Language and the Bond of Conscience 31

Natural Rights Theory: The Social Contract and the Linguistic Contract 33

The Common Law: Magna Carta and Economic Contract 41

Covenant Theology: Divine Speech Acts and the Covenant of Metaphor 48

CHAPTER 3. The Passions and Voluntary Servitude 57

The Slave Contract 60

The Law of the Heart 64

Free Consent 73

PART II: A Poetics of Contract, 1640-1674 81

CHAPTER 4. Imagination 83

Five Knights: From Promise to Contract 85

Shipmoney and the Imagination of Disaster 90

Henry Parker and the Metaphor of Contract 95

Falkland, Chillingworth, Digges, and the Fiction of Representation 104

CHAPTER 5. Violence 112

Prophesying Revolution 113

The Metaphorical Plot 120

CHAPTER 6. Metalanguage 134

The Problem of Essex 138

Hobbe's Critique of Romance 141

The Contract of Mimesis 147

Hobbesian Fictions 151

Method and Metalanguage 154

Hobbes's Readers or Inescapable Romance 166

CHAPTER 7. Gender 171

Political Contract and the Marriage Contract 174

The Politics of Romance 177

Passion and Interest 180

Contract on Trial 185

The Sexual Contract 189

The Paralogism of Romance 192

CHAPTER 8. Embodiment 196

Resistless Love and Hate 198

Paradise Lost and the Bond of Nature 207

Pity or Fear of Violent Death 214

CHAPTER 9. Sympathy 223

Wise Compliance 227

The Politics of Pity 234

Sympathy between Men 241

CHAPTER 10. Critique 252

Reason of State 254

Samson as Exception 262

Reasoning about the Exception: Dialectic and Equivocation 264

Taking Exception to Pity and Fear 270

Political Theology and Tragedy 276

CHAPTER 11. Conclusion 279

Notes 285

Index 365

Über Autor(innen)

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).