Contract theory in historical context : essays on Grotius, Hobbes, and Locke / by Deborah Baumgold.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baumgold, Deborah.

Series:

Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 187.

Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 187

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social contract.

Grotius, Hugo, 1583-1645.

Grotius, Hugo.

Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679.

Hobbes, Thomas.

Locke, John, 1632-1704.

Locke, John.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-78700-4

9786612787003

90-04-18426-0

OCLC:

667271566

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004184251.i-190 DOI