Philosophy, Rights and Natural Law: Essays in Honour of Knud Haakonssen - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1474449239 ISBN 13: 9781474449236

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2020

Synopsis

Over his long and illustrious career, Knud Haakonssen has explored the role of natural law in formulating doctrines of obligation and rights in accordance with the interests of early modern polities and churches. The essays collected in this volume range across this exciting and contested field. These 13 new essays acknowledge Haakonssen's immense academic achievement and give us new insights into the cultural and political role of law and rights in a variety of historical contexts and circumstances.

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About the Author

Richard Whatmore is Professor of History at the University of St Andrews and Director of the St Andrews Institute of Intellectual History. He is the author of What is Intellectual History? (Polity, 2015), Against War and Empire (Yale University Press, 2012) and Republicanism and the French Revolution (OUP, 2000). He is the co-editor of Commerce and Peace in the Enlightenment (Cambridge University Press, 2017), Companion to Intellectual History (Wiley-Blackwell, 2016), David Hume (Ashgate, 2013), Advances in Intellectual History (Palgrave, 2006) and Economy, Polity and Society: Essays in British Intellectual History, 2 volumes (Cambridge University Press, 2000).

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Contributions to philosophy, rights and natural law inspired by the work of Knud Haakonssen Over his long and illustrious career, Knud Haakonssen has been centrally interested in the role of natural law in formulating doctrines of obligation and rights in accordance with the interests of early modern polities and churches. A hallmark of his approach has been to show how in early-modern Europe natural law was less a unified doctrine than a field of cross-cutting idioms in which competing political and juridical programs were prosecuted for many cross-cutting purposes. The essays collected in this volume range across this exciting and contested field. In doing so they pay tribute to the work of Knud Haakonssen who, over four decades of scholarly activity, uncovered this field in all of its variety and depth. Not only do these studies acknowledge his immense academic achievement but they also offer new insights into the cultural and political role of law and rights in a variety of historical contexts and circumstances. Ian Hunter is Emeritus Professor of Intellectual History in the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Queensland. Richard Whatmore is Professor of Modern History at the University of St Andrews and Director of the St Andrews Institute of Intellectual History.

Edition details

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1474449239
• ISBN 13: 9781474449236
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384
• Editor: Hunter Ian, Whatmore Richard