Horst Bredekamp's subject is the astute deployment and perennial resonance of the startling image of the body politic that dominates the frontispiece to Leviathan: a treatise on the psychology of the individual and the dynamic of the multitude, published in 1651 by the English p…
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Tiré du site de l'éditeur : "Thomas Hobbes and John Locke sit together in the canon of political thought but are rarely treated in common historical accounts. This book narrates their intertwined careers during the Restoration period, when the two men found themselves in close p…
The Oxford handbook of Hobbes
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The Oxford Handbook of Hobbes collects twenty-six newly commissioned, original chapters on the philosophy of the English thinker Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679). Best known today for his important influence on political philosophy, Hobbes was in fact a wide and deep thinker on a diver…
Interpreting Hobbes's political philosophy
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Interpreting Hobbes's political philosophy
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Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) was the first great English philosopher and one of the most important theorists of human nature and politics in the history of Western thought. This superlative introduction presents Hobbes' main doctrines and arguments, covering all of Hobbes' philosop…
Uniquely bringing together three different texts, Runciman (Trinity College, U. of Cambridge, UK) elucidates the problems with arguments in Plato's Republic, Hobbes's Leviathan, and Marx's Communist Manifesto, although they are viewed as great books. He focuses on passages that …
Part 1. Pufendorf the Hobbesian -- I The Theory of Obligation -- II Nature of Man and State of Nature: the Doctrine of Sociality -- Part 2. Why Did Pufendorf Pass for an Anti-Hobbesian? -- I Pufendorf's Place in the History of Ethics According to Pufendorf -- II The Role of Cumb…
