Contract theory in historical context [[electronic resource] ] : essays on Grotius, Hobbes, and Locke / / by Deborah Baumgold
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Baumgold Deborah
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Contract theory in historical context [[electronic resource] ] : essays on Grotius, Hobbes, and Locke / / by Deborah Baumgold
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| Pubblicazione: | Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (208 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 320.1/1 |
| Soggetto topico: | Social contract |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Preliminary Material / D. Baumgold -- Chapter One. Hobbes’s And Locke’s Contract Theories: Political Not Metaphysical / D. Baumgold -- Chapter Two. Pacifying Politics: Resistance, Violence, And Accountability In Seventeenth-Century Contract Theory / D. Baumgold -- Chapter Three. When Hobbes Needed History / D. Baumgold -- Chapter Four. Hobbesian Absolutism And The Paradox In Modern Contractarianism / D. Baumgold -- Chapter Five. The Composition Of Hobbes’s Elements Of Law / D. Baumgold -- Chapter Six. The Difficulties Of Hobbes Interpretation / D. Baumgold -- Chapter Seven. Afterword: Theorists Of The Absolutist State / D. Baumgold -- Bibliography / D. Baumgold -- Index / D. Baumgold. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Contract theory in historical context |
| ISBN: | 1-282-78700-4 |
| 9786612787003 | |
| 90-04-18426-0 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910459270403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Brill's studies in intellectual history ; ; v. 187.