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The Language of Politics in Seventeenth-Century England (Paperback, 1st ed. 1994)
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The Language of Politics in Seventeenth-Century England (Paperback, 1st ed. 1994)
Series: Studies in Modern History
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This is a study of the words of political discourse in
seventeenth-century England from which we now reconstruct its
theories. Taking its starting point in modern theories of
language,intellectual history is first reconceptualised. Part 1
presents an overview of the political domain in the seventeenth
century arguing that what we see as the political was fugitive and
subject to reductionist pressures from better established fields of
discourse. Further, there were strong pressures leading towards an
indiscriminate and relatively general vocabulary, in turn
facilitating the imposition of our anachronistic images of
political theory. Part 2 focuses on a sub-set of the political
vocabulary, charting the changing relationships between the words
subject, citizen, resistance, rebellion, the coinage of rhetorical
exchange. The final chapter returns most explicitly to the themes
of the introduction, by exploring how the historians own vocabulary
can be systematically misleading when taken into the context of
seventeenth-century word use.
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