Covenant and Contract: Politics, Ethics and Religion

by Adela Cortina and A. Cortina

In today's world two narrations are vital for understanding human bonds: the account of reciprocal recognition, the Covenant, as told in the book of Genesis, extended in the works of G.H. Mead, dialogical personalism and discourse ethics; and the Contract, as this is expounded in Hobbes' Leviathan, which continues to be seen in all kinds of hues in the liberal tradition. The Aristotelian account of the republic, of the political community "prior"...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9042913401
• ISBN13: 9789042913400
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: Peeters
• Length: 138 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.2" x 9.7"