Argument and Authority in Early Modern England: The Presupposition of Oaths and OfficesConal Condren offers a radical reappraisal of the character of moral and political theory in early modern England through an exploration of pervasive arguments about office. In this context he explores the significance of oath-taking and three of the major crises around oaths and offices in the seventeenth century. This fresh focus on office brings into serious question much of what has been taken for granted in the study of early modern political and moral theory concerning, for example, the interplay of ideologies, the emergence of a public sphere, of liberalism, reason of state, de facto theory, and perhaps even political theory and moral agency as we know it. Argument and Authority is a major new work from a senior scholar of early modern political thought, of interest to a wide range of historians, philosophers and literary scholars. |
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... language , we may properly conjecture what I shall call a presupposition of office broadly characteristic of early modern England . By restricting attention to desig- nated political offices , we decipher , as it were , without a key ...
... language , we may properly conjecture what I shall call a presupposition of office broadly characteristic of early modern England . By restricting attention to desig- nated political offices , we decipher , as it were , without a key ...
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... Language of Politics concentrated on the semantic residue from seventeenth - century England , and how it has been susceptible to rough treatment by modern scholars who , taking their own conceptual vocabu- lary for granted , have read ...
... Language of Politics concentrated on the semantic residue from seventeenth - century England , and how it has been susceptible to rough treatment by modern scholars who , taking their own conceptual vocabu- lary for granted , have read ...
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... language use and may become a focus of debate . Even a clarificatory statement such as ' what I am presupposing is x ' places x on the verge of becoming an axiom , an article of faith , or a doctrine . Under pressure , with a breakdown ...
... language use and may become a focus of debate . Even a clarificatory statement such as ' what I am presupposing is x ' places x on the verge of becoming an axiom , an article of faith , or a doctrine . Under pressure , with a breakdown ...
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... language does not seem to me sufficient for positing a distinct ontological realm for basic concepts ( Grundbegriffe ) , to be located somewhere between language and social reality , so acting , to employ Reinhart Koselleck's metaphor ...
... language does not seem to me sufficient for positing a distinct ontological realm for basic concepts ( Grundbegriffe ) , to be located somewhere between language and social reality , so acting , to employ Reinhart Koselleck's metaphor ...
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... language from society , and without restricting us to that historical minority who use their vocabulary in an acceptably abstract and philosophical fashion . We can , likewise , recognise John Cotta's sensitivity to the conjectural ...
... language from society , and without restricting us to that historical minority who use their vocabulary in an acceptably abstract and philosophical fashion . We can , likewise , recognise John Cotta's sensitivity to the conjectural ...
Contents
An overview | 15 |
Ceremonies of office The kiss of the tuttiman | 36 |
Institutionalised office a sense of the scavenger | 54 |
The vocabulary of office | 80 |
Offices of the intellect player poet and philosopher | 105 |
Soul and conscience | 125 |
The authority and insolence of office | 147 |
The cases of patriot and counsellor | 149 |
I A B | 231 |
An overview of the oath in seventeenthcentury argument | 233 |
Coronation oaths | 254 |
The oath of allegiance of 1606 | 269 |
Engagement with a free state | 290 |
The oath of allegiance and the Revolution of 16889 | 314 |
Epilogue | 343 |
Bibliography | 353 |
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