(Source: Oxford University Press)
Oxford University Press is publishing a new
book on Puritan legal thought in the 17th century next month. The Ebook
is already available, the hardcover can be ordered here.
DESCRIPTION
The Puritan Cosmopolis traces a sense of
kinship that emerged from within the larger realm of Puritan law and literature
in late seventeenth-century New England. Nan Goodman argues that these early modern
Puritans-connected to the cosmopolis in part through travel, trade, and
politics-were also thinking in terms that went beyond feeling affiliated with
people in remote places, or what cosmopolitan theorists call "attachment
at a distance." In this way Puritan writers and readers were not simply
learning about others, but also cultivating an awareness of themselves as
ethically related to people all around the world. Such thought experiments
originated and advanced through the law, specifically the law of nations, a
precursor to international law and an inspiration for much of the imagination
and literary expression of cosmopolitanism among the Puritans. The Puritan
Cosmopolis shows that by internalizing the legal theories that pertained to the
world writ large, the Puritans were able to experiment with concepts of
extended obligation, re-conceptualize war, contemplate new ways of cultivating
peace, and rewrite the very meaning of Puritan living. Through a detailed
consideration of Puritan legal thought, Goodman provides an unexpected link
between the Puritans, Jews, and Ottomans in the early modern world and reveals
how the Puritan legal and literary past relates to present concerns about
globalism and cosmopolitanism.
TABLE
OF CONTENTS
Prologue
Chapter 1: The Law of Nations and the
Sources of the Cosmopolis
Chapter 2: The Cosmopolitan Covenant
Chapter 3: The Manufactured Millennium
Chapter 4: Evidentiary Cosmopolitanism
Chapter 5: Cosmopolitan Communication and
the Discourse of Pietism
Epilogue
More information can be found on the publisher’s
website
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