The Time of the Contract: Insurance, Contingency, and the Arrangement of Risk

Angela Mitropoulos

No 7gr3p, LawRxiv from Center for Open Science

Abstract: This essay argues that neocontractualism emerges at a historical shift from classical liberal (Lockean) understandings of right (as the distinction between free and slave labour, premised on the non-absolute or temporally-limited transference of right) and the expansive use of the calculus of moral risk that accompanied that understanding of right. Neocontractualism is here defined as the turn to unbreakable and/or obligatory contracts, in which (paraphrasing Pascal and Ewald) there is no choice whether to contract.

Date: 2017-02-19
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