TAILIEUCHUNG - Ebook British Political Thought in History, Literature and Theory, 1500-1800: Part 2

(BQ) Part 2 of ebook "British Political Thought in History, Literature and Theory, 1500-1800" covers the following contents: The Nature of rights and the History of Empire, reading the private in Margaret Cavendish: Conversations in political thought, reflections on political Literature: History, Theory and the printed book, here and now, there and then, always and everywhere: Reflections concerning political theory and the study/writing of political thought. | PART III British Political Thought and Political Theory CHAPTER 10 The Nature of Rights and the History of Empire Duncan Ivison I This chapter is a study in the globalization of the history of British political thought. What do I mean by globalization in this context If the history of British political thought has been deconstructed into something more than the history of English political thought and the idea of political thought itself into more than just explicitly political treatises speeches or pamphlets1 then what happens when we extend this multi-centred approach beyond the edges of the British Isles to the settler-colonial contexts of North America and Australasia for example British political discourse now a complex of discourses as opposed to one engages with and becomes part of a new bundle of discourses that includes but is not reducible to either English or British political thought. To illustrate this approach I shall consider the genesis and afterlife of one strand of the discourse of rights. The language of rights especially that of subjective rights or as we call them today individual rights was one of the most powerful and influential modes of political discourse to emerge in the early-modern period. Historians of rights have pointed out that although the emergence of subjective rights in the seventeenth century is closely associated with attempts at limiting the authority of states this legacy is somewhat First of all rights discourse was used to justify submission to authority as much as limits against it insofar as it entailed the discretion of individuals to submit absolutely. Secondly there are deep connections between the language of rights and processes of state-formation 3 and especially the link between the 1 See O Brien in this volume. 2 Tuck 1979 1993 1999 Haakonssen 1996 Haakonssen 2001 Foucault 2003. 3 Tuck 1999 Armitage 2000 Braddick 2000. .

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