- Title:
- Looke about you: the constitution of the Leveller subject in an ethical experience of engagement, England 1640-1660
- Creator:
- Richards, Brodie E.
- Date Created:
- 2002
- Degree Awarded:
- Master of Arts
- Subjects:
- identity social construction
- Geographical Focus:
- England
- Supporting Materials:
- n/a
- Description:
- Within the revolutionary events of the English Civil War the political conditions of the war produced significant modifications in how individuals engaged in political activity. These modifications and the conflict they engendered were shaped by discourses produced within a vast print marketplace of pamphlets, sermons, treatises and newsbooks. In studying the tracts of this period, this work has isolated the moral debate on ‘the Leveller’ and the debate’s interrelation to the practices of a ‘sort of men’ who formed a political organization to pursue a specific set of goals and ideals. Central to the practices of this organization was the promotion of an Agreement of the People as a model for settling the commonwealth. The examination of this group is organized by a Foucaultian methodology, whereby it analyses the way an ethical experience of engagement produced, within ‘practices of the self,” the conditions for the leveller to constitute himself as an ethical subject of his political activity. Organizing the thesis within a different theoretical paradigm has enabled it to suggest the way the leveller introduced important changes to modes of political subjectivity based upon a problematization of the ‘self” in ethical practice.
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- Richards, Brodie E.. 2002. "Looke about you: the constitution of the Leveller subject in an ethical experience of engagement, England 1640-1660", Department of History, Carleton University
- Link to this page:
- https://cuhistory.github.io/grads/items/hist_181.html
Rights
- Rights:
- Copyright the author, all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.