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Use of Social Contract Arguments in Decolonization and Postwar Constitutionalism (1945–1975)

1945 - 1976

12 entries

Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan, State of Nature, and Political Impact (1641–1700)

1640 - 1681

15 entries

Samuel Pufendorf and the Secularization of Social Contract Thought (1660–1709)

1660 - 1694

13 entries

Robert Nozick: Anarchy, State, and Utopia and Libertarian Responses (1974–1992)

1974 - 1992

12 entries

Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Social Contract and Revolutionary Politics (1762–1799)

1762 - 1799

13 entries

Indigenous and Postcolonial Critiques of Social Contract Justifications for Colonization (17th–20th centuries)

1550 - 2014

14 entries