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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... less attention has been given to how people argued about offices , 1 Ernst Kantorowicz , The King's Two Bodies : A Study in Medieval Political Theology ( Princeton , 1958 ) ; V. I. Slater , Noble Government : The Stuart Lord Lieutenancy ...
... less attention has been given to how people argued about offices , 1 Ernst Kantorowicz , The King's Two Bodies : A Study in Medieval Political Theology ( Princeton , 1958 ) ; V. I. Slater , Noble Government : The Stuart Lord Lieutenancy ...
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... less adequately shared , a habitus , to borrow Bour- dieu's useful term . To hypothesise presuppositions , then , is not to spe- cify anything as cohesive as a doctrine , a theory , a set of ideas , concepts , an ideology or anything ...
... less adequately shared , a habitus , to borrow Bour- dieu's useful term . To hypothesise presuppositions , then , is not to spe- cify anything as cohesive as a doctrine , a theory , a set of ideas , concepts , an ideology or anything ...
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... less a separate realm than the manner in which two extensions connect and move in concert . It is , nevertheless , exactly this propensity to conceptual hypostatisation that takes Begriffsgeschichte back towards its point of critical ...
... less a separate realm than the manner in which two extensions connect and move in concert . It is , nevertheless , exactly this propensity to conceptual hypostatisation that takes Begriffsgeschichte back towards its point of critical ...
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... less shared vocabu- lary of seventeenth - century moral discourse and the presuppositions that may plausibly be conjectured from it . By postulating a presupposition of office , I believe it is possible to make good sense of how the ...
... less shared vocabu- lary of seventeenth - century moral discourse and the presuppositions that may plausibly be conjectured from it . By postulating a presupposition of office , I believe it is possible to make good sense of how the ...
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... less so if it is kept in mind that the office is what matters , other familiar topics being the means to its elucidation . Similarly , there is no systematic single discussion of a figure like Thomas Hobbes , who persists in rounding ...
... less so if it is kept in mind that the office is what matters , other familiar topics being the means to its elucidation . Similarly , there is no systematic single discussion of a figure like Thomas Hobbes , who persists in rounding ...
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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