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Fictions of Consent: Contract and the Victorian Novel
11/22/2019(English, Ph.D.) 2017-18 Kenan Graduate Fellow in Ethics Liberal political theory places a premium on the concept of individual freedom, which is enacted—political philosophers tell us—through autonomous choices that reflect personal preferences. Thus, the exemplary form of modern liberty is contract: we perform our freedom every time we enter into willed agreement with another individual […]
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