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Hobbes on legal authority and political obligation / Luciano Venezia.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Venezia, Luciano, 1979- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679.
- Hobbes, Thomas.
- Natural law.
- Duress (Law).
- Liberty of contract.
- Natural obligations.
- Effectiveness and validity of law.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 161 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Coercion, rational self-interest, and obligation
- The authority of law
- Political obligation
- Contractarianism
- The Hobbesian analysis of contracts under coercion : a critique
- Final remarks.
- Notes:
- Based on author's thesis (doctoral - University of Buenos Aires and the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris, 2012) issued under title, Political authority and political obligation in Hobbe's Leviathan.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781137490247
- 1137490241
- OCLC:
- 907931399
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