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Contract Theory in Historical Context

Essays on Grotius, Hobbes, and Locke

Inbunden, Engelska, 2010

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These essays contest the truism that the social contract is a modern political idea. Just as Rawls came to acknowledge that his political theory built in the parochial horizon of his time, Hobbes’s, Grotius’s, and Locke’s theories presuppose their ancien regime world. Despite their universalizing language, Hobbes’s and Locke’s theories addressed the age-old issue of resistance to tyrants and assumed the framework of hereditary monarchy. Essays in the volume also relate the logic of their contract claims back to Bodin’s and Grotius’s defenses of absolute sovereignty and direct attention to the affinity between an ‘absolutism of fear’ and Hume’s sensibility. For politically-inclined readers, these theories come to life by being read as treatises on politics in the early-modern state.

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Utgivningsdatum2010-04-27
Mått160 x 240 x 17 mm
Vikt501 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieBrill's Studies in Intellectual History
Antal sidor190
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789004184251

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PrefaceAbbreviationsPART I: AN ANCIEN REGIME QUESTION: RESISTANCE1. Hobbes’s and Locke’s Contract Theories: Political not Metaphysical2. Pacifying Politics: Resistance, Violence, and Accountability in Seventeenth-Century Contract TheoryPART II: AN ANCIEN REGIME HORIZON: PARTICULARITY AND UNIVERSALITY3. When Hobbes Needed History4. Hobbesian Absolutism and the Paradox in Modern ContractarianismPART III: ANCIEN REGIME BOOKS: SERIAL COMPOSITION5. The Composition of Hobbes’s Elements of Law6. The Difficulties of Hobbes InterpretationAFTERWORD7. Afterword: Theorists of the Absolutist StateBibliographyIndex

‘’This collection of scholarship is a useful resource for the advanced Hobbes scholar, wrtten in a technically sophisticated style by an author with extensive expertise in Hobbes studies. Libraries who wish to expand their Hobbes literature and do not have access to many of the articles this book republishes should consider this volume for their collections’’Adam G. Yoksas, Loyola Univesrity Chicago. In: History of Political Thought, Vol. 34, No. 2, 2013, pp. 355-6.