Victoria Kahn: 2 books
The Future of Illusion
Political Theology and Early Modern Texts
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
In recent years, the rise of fundamentalism and a related turn to religion in the humanities have led to a powerful resurgence of interest in the problem of political theology. In a critique of this contemporary fascination with the theological underpinnings of modern politics, Victoria Kahn proposes...
Wayward Contracts
The Crisis of Political Obligation in England, 1640-1674
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Why did the language of contract become the dominant metaphor for the relationship between subject and sovereign in mid-seventeenth-century England? In Wayward Contracts, Victoria Kahn takes issue with the usual explanation for the emergence of contract theory in terms of the origins of liberalism,...