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Informationen zum Autor Conal Condren is Scientia Professor in Politics and International Relations at the University of New South Wales. Klappentext Conal Condren offers a radical reappraisal of the character of moral and political theory in early modern England through an exploration of pervasive and fundamental arguments about office. This 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. Zusammenfassung Conal Condren offers a radical reappraisal of the character of moral and political theory in early modern England through an exploration of pervasive and fundamental arguments about office. This focus questions almost all received notions! and establishes a new and original agenda for the study of early modern political thought. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Introduction; Part I. The Liquid Empire of Office: 1. An overview; 2. Ceremonies of office: the kiss of the Tutti-Man; 3. Institutionalised office: a sense of the scavenger; 4. The vocabulary of office; 5. Offices of the intellect: player, poet and philosopher; 6. Soul and conscience; Part II. The Authority and Insolence of Office; 7. The cases of patriot and counsellor; 8. Casuistry as the mediation of office; 9. The case of resistance to superior power; 10. Metaphor and political autonomy; Part III 'I, A, B': 11. An overview of the oath in seventeenth-century argument; 12. Coronation oaths; 13. The oath of allegiance of 1606; 14. Engagement with a free state; 15. The oath of allegiance and the Revolution of 1688-9; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.
