Contract Theory in Historical Context

Deborah Baumgold, Ph.D. (1980) in Political Science, Princeton University, is Professor of Political Science at the University of Oregon.

• 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.