Argument and Authority in Early Modern England : The Presupposition of Oaths and Offices
The Language of Politics concentrated on the semantic residue from seventeenth-century England, and how it has been susceptible to rough treatment by modern scholars who, taking their own conceptual vocabulary for granted, have read it into the past. In particular, the terms radical, moderate, c...
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Cambridge University Press
2013
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| Tóm tắt: | The Language of Politics concentrated on the semantic residue from
seventeenth-century England, and how it has been susceptible to rough
treatment by modern scholars who, taking their own conceptual vocabulary
for granted, have read it into the past. In particular, the terms radical,
moderate, conservative, and their near relations left, right, centre, have
been used with a redescriptive insouciance that has anachronistically
distorted early-modern debate.8 For all the breadth of brush-stroke, it
was argued that my case was incomplete because of inadequate attention
to the conjectured principles, ideas and concepts to which I occasionally
alluded.9 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 previously described and
much more besides. It may or may not play a part in explaining state
formation, but a thorough exploration of the linguistic terrain of office
would seem to be a precondition for the success of that adjacent enterprise,
just as it is for tracing specific theories of office as responses to a changing
world. Indeed, if office-talk was as ubiquitous as I claim it was, the whole
notion of early-modern political theory needs to be reconsidered |
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