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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... concepts . This study , then , is intended as a change of direction for , and an exploration of the implications of ... concept formation in politics . Thus , it is one of a series and follows principally from The Language of Politics ...
... concepts . This study , then , is intended as a change of direction for , and an exploration of the implications of ... concept formation in politics . Thus , it is one of a series and follows principally from The Language of Politics ...
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... concepts to which I occasionally alluded . " The point was well made , and this study is an attempt to rectify the imbalance . The purpose is to hypothesise a presupposition of office as an explanans for the sort of word use I have ...
... concepts to which I occasionally alluded . " The point was well made , and this study is an attempt to rectify the imbalance . The purpose is to hypothesise a presupposition of office as an explanans for the sort of word use I have ...
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... concepts , an ideology or anything that might be mistaken for an independent object or agent . It is simply to suggest ... concept is not a reference 11 Pierre Bourdieu , Esquisse d'une théorie de la pratique ( Geneva , 1972 ) , trans ...
... concepts , an ideology or anything that might be mistaken for an independent object or agent . It is simply to suggest ... concept is not a reference 11 Pierre Bourdieu , Esquisse d'une théorie de la pratique ( Geneva , 1972 ) , trans ...
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... concept terms that most readily facilitates what Begriffsgeschichte wishes to avoid : the projection of ' present day concepts back into the past'.15 There is , in fact , a whole family of terms in historiography - presuppos- ition ...
... concept terms that most readily facilitates what Begriffsgeschichte wishes to avoid : the projection of ' present day concepts back into the past'.15 There is , in fact , a whole family of terms in historiography - presuppos- ition ...
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... concept of citizenship , of liberty , rule and tyranny . The discussion of such words is intended to illuminate differing aspects of the rhetorics of office - holding . This practice might seem initially repetitive and disparate by ...
... concept of citizenship , of liberty , rule and tyranny . The discussion of such words is intended to illuminate differing aspects of the rhetorics of office - holding . This practice might seem initially repetitive and disparate by ...
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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