Argument and Authority in Early Modern England The Presupposition of Oaths and Offices

Name: Argument and Authority in Early Modern England The Presupposition of Oaths and Offices
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ISBN: 9780521859080

ISBN-10: 0521859085

ISBN-13: 9780521859080

Edition: 2006

Authors: Conal Condren

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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…

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List price: $149.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 3/17/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 412
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.738
Language: English



Preface


Introduction



The liquid empire of office



An overview



Ceremonies of office: The kiss of the tutti-man



Institutionalised office: a sense of the scavenger



The vocabulary of office



Offices of the intellect: player, poet and philosopher



Soul and conscience



The authority and insolence of office



The cases of patriot and counsellor



Casuistry as the mediation of office



The case of resistance to superior power



Metaphor and political autonomy



'I, A. B.'



An overview of the oath in seventeenth-century argument



Coronation oaths



The oath of allegiance of 1606



Engagement with a free state



The oath of allegiance and the Revolution of 1688-9


Epilogue


Bibliography


Index