Argument authority early mod england

Conal Condren0521859085, 9780521859080, 9780511169250

Conal 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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Table of contents :
Cover……Page 1
Half-title……Page 3
Title……Page 5
Copyright……Page 6
Dedication……Page 7
Contents……Page 9
Preface……Page 11
I……Page 13
II……Page 15
III……Page 18
IV……Page 22
Part I The liquid empire of office……Page 25
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II……Page 33
III……Page 37
IV……Page 42
V……Page 44
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Part II The authority and insolence of office……Page 159
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Part III ‘I, A. B.’……Page 243
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VIII……Page 343
IX……Page 346
X……Page 349
I……Page 355
II……Page 361
UNPUBLISHED MATERIALS……Page 365
RE-PRINTED COLLECTIONS OF TRACTS AND DOCUMENTS……Page 366
ANONYMOUS WORKS……Page 367
NAMED OR INITIALLED BOOKS AND TRACTS……Page 370
SECONDARY SOURCES: BOOKS……Page 386
SECONDARY SOURCES: ARTICLES……Page 394
Note……Page 403