Contract Theory in Historical Context

 

• Hardcover: 190 pages
• Publisher: BRILL (April 27, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 9004184252
• ISBN-13: 978-9004184251

These essays carefully show that classic social-contract theory was an ancien regime genre. Far more than is commonly realized, the local horizon was built into Hobbes's and Locke's theories and the genre drew on the absolutism of Bodin and Grotius.

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