Philosophy, Rights and Natural Law: Essays in Honour of Knud Haakonssen
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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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Publication Date: 28 Feb 2019
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781474449229
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Ian Hunter is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Queensland. He is author of The Secularisation of the Confessional State: The Political Thought of Christian Thomasius (Cambridge University Press 2007). He is co-editor of Law and Politics in British Colonial Thought (Palgrave Macmillan 2010) Essays on Church State and Politics (Liberty Fund 2007) The Philosopher in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge University Press 2006) Heresy in Transition (Ashgate 2005) and Natural Law and Civil Sovereignty (Palgrave Macmillan 2002). 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).