George Lawson's 'Politica' and the English Revolution
George Lawson's 'Politica' and the English Revolution
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GBPThis is the first full account, analysis and subsequent history of George Lawson's Politica, 1660–89. For long accepted as a significant figure, through his criticism of Hobbes and his possible influence on Locke, Lawson has never been studied in depth, nor has his biography been previously established. Professor Condren here provides the context and the analysis of Lawson's major work, in the process re-dating it and providing a quite different interpretation from previous readings. A substantial section is devoted to the history of the text and its use in controversies in the period 1660–89, and there is some reassessment of the relationship between Hobbes, Locke and Lawson. The study also uses Lawson's text to reopen questions about English seventeenth-century political theory in general, and to prefigure a theoretical study on metaphor and political conceptualisation. The book thus operates on a number of levels, philosophical and linguistic as well as historical.
Product details
August 2002Paperback
9780521522380
232 pages
229 × 153 × 17 mm
0.382kg
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- Texts used and a concordance for the 'Politica'
- List of abbreviations
- Part I. Historiographical and Biographical Preliminaries:
- 1. Historiography
- 2. Biography
- Part II. An Exposition of Lawson's Politica:
- 3. God and human society
- 4. Community and political power
- 5. The keys
- 6. The limits of subjection
- Part III. An Examination of the Politica:
- 7. Providence and rhetoric
- 8. Community, representation and consent
- 9. Settlement and resistance
- 10. From Civil War to settlement
- Part IV. The Fate of the Politica from the Settlement to the Glorious Revolution:
- 11. Lawson and Baxter
- 12. Lawson and Hunfrey
- 13. The Politica and the allegiance controversy
- 14. Aftermath
- Part V. Conclusion:
- 15. Between Hobbes and Locke
- 16. Theory and historiography
- Index.
