Hobbess Leviathan
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Author |
: Thomas Hobbes |
Publisher |
: Courier Corporation |
Total Pages |
: 418 |
Release |
: 2012-10-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780486122144 |
ISBN-13 |
: 048612214X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (44 Downloads) |
Synopsis Leviathan by : Thomas Hobbes
Written during a moment in English history when the political and social structures were in flux and open to interpretation, Leviathan played an essential role in the development of the modern world.
Author |
: Carl Schmitt |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 178 |
Release |
: 2008-10-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226738949 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0226738949 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Leviathan in the State Theory of Thomas Hobbes by : Carl Schmitt
First published in 1938, The Leviathan in the State Theory of Thomas Hobbes used the Enlightenment philosopher's enduring symbol of the protective Leviathan to address the nature of modern statehood.
Author |
: David Van Mill |
Publisher |
: SUNY Press |
Total Pages |
: 276 |
Release |
: 2001-07-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0791450368 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780791450369 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis Liberty, Rationality, and Agency in Hobbes's Leviathan by : David Van Mill
A new interpretation of the theory of Hobbes.
Author |
: Patricia Springborg |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 2007-07-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781139827287 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1139827286 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (87 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes's Leviathan by : Patricia Springborg
This Companion makes a new departure in Hobbes scholarship, addressing a philosopher whose impact was as great on Continental European theories of state and legal systems as it was at home. This volume is a systematic attempt to incorporate work from both the Anglophone and Continental traditions, bringing together newly commissioned work by scholars from ten different countries in a topic-by-topic sequence of essays that follows the structure of Leviathan, re-examining the relationship among Hobbes's physics, metaphysics, politics, psychology, and religion. Collectively they showcase important revisionist scholarship that re-examines both the context for Leviathan and its reception, demonstrating the degree to which Hobbes was indebted to the long tradition of European humanist thought. This Cambridge Companion shows that Hobbes's legacy was never lost and that he belongs to a tradition of reflection on political theory and governance that is still alive, both in Europe and in the diaspora.
Author |
: Susanne Sreedhar |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 193 |
Release |
: 2010-09-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781139488303 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1139488309 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis Hobbes on Resistance by : Susanne Sreedhar
Hobbes's political theory has traditionally been taken to be an endorsement of state power and a prescription for unconditional obedience to the sovereign's will. In this book, Susanne Sreedhar develops a novel interpretation of Hobbes's theory of political obligation and explores important cases where Hobbes claims that subjects have a right to disobey and resist state power, even when their lives are not directly threatened. Drawing attention to this broader set of rights, her comprehensive analysis of Hobbes's account of political disobedience reveals a unified and coherent theory of resistance that has previously gone unnoticed and undefended. Her book will appeal to all who are interested in the nature and limits of political authority, the right of self-defense, the right of revolution, and the modern origins of these issues.
Author |
: James R. Martel |
Publisher |
: Columbia University Press |
Total Pages |
: 332 |
Release |
: 2007 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0231139845 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780231139847 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (45 Downloads) |
Synopsis Subverting the Leviathan by : James R. Martel
In Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes's landmark work on political philosophy, James Martel argues that although Hobbes pays lip service to the superior interpretive authority of the sovereign, he consistently subverts this authority throughout the book by returning it to the reader. Martel demonstrates that Hobbes's radical method of reading not only undermines his own authority in the text, but, by extension, the authority of the sovereign as well. To make his point, Martel looks closely at Hobbes's understanding of religious and rhetorical representation. In Leviathan, idolatry is not just a matter of worshipping images but also a consequence of bad reading. Hobbes speaks of the "error of separated essences," in which a sign takes precedence over the idea or object it represents, and warns that when the sign is given such agency, it becomes a disembodied fantasy leading to a "kingdom of darkness." To combat such idolatry, Hobbes offers a method of reading in which one resists the rhetorical manipulation of figures and tropes and recognizes the codes and structures of language for what they are-the only way to convey a fundamental inability to ever know "the thing itself." Making the leap to politics, Martel suggests that following Hobbes's argument, the sovereign can also be seen as idolatrous--a separated essence--a figure who supplants the people it purportedly represents, and that learning to be better readers enables us to challenge, if not defeat, the authority of the sovereign.
Author |
: Thomas Hobbes |
Publisher |
: Barnes & Noble Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 612 |
Release |
: 2004 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0760755930 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780760755938 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (30 Downloads) |
Synopsis Leviathan by : Thomas Hobbes
After the publication of his masterpiece of political theory, Leviathan, Or the Matter, and Power of Commonwealth Ecclesiastic and Civil, in 1651, opponents charged Thomas Hobbes with atheism and banned and burned his books. The English Parliament, in a search for scapegoats, even claimed that the theories found in Leviathan were a likely cause of the Plague of 1665 and the Great Fire of 1666. For the modern reader, though, Hobbes is more recognized for his popular belief that humanity's natural condition is a state of perpetual war, with life being "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short." Despite frequent challenges by other philosophers, Leviathan's secular theory of absolutism no longer stands out as particularly objectionable. In the description of the organization of states, moreover, we see Hobbes as strikingly current in his use of concepts that we still employ today, including the ideas of natural law, natural rights, and the social contract. Based on this work, one could even argue that Hobbes created English-language philosophy, insofar as Leviathan was the first great philosophical work written in English and one whose impact continues to the present day.
Author |
: Steven Shapin |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 446 |
Release |
: 2011-08-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781400838493 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1400838495 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Synopsis Leviathan and the Air-Pump by : Steven Shapin
Leviathan and the Air-Pump examines the conflicts over the value and propriety of experimental methods between two major seventeenth-century thinkers: Thomas Hobbes, author of the political treatise Leviathan and vehement critic of systematic experimentation in natural philosophy, and Robert Boyle, mechanical philosopher and owner of the newly invented air-pump. The issues at stake in their disputes ranged from the physical integrity of the air-pump to the intellectual integrity of the knowledge it might yield. Both Boyle and Hobbes were looking for ways of establishing knowledge that did not decay into ad hominem attacks and political division. Boyle proposed the experiment as cure. He argued that facts should be manufactured by machines like the air-pump so that gentlemen could witness the experiments and produce knowledge that everyone agreed on. Hobbes, by contrast, looked for natural law and viewed experiments as the artificial, unreliable products of an exclusive guild. The new approaches taken in Leviathan and the Air-Pump have been enormously influential on historical studies of science. Shapin and Schaffer found a moment of scientific revolution and showed how key scientific givens--facts, interpretations, experiment, truth--were fundamental to a new political order. Shapin and Schaffer were also innovative in their ethnographic approach. Attempting to understand the work habits, rituals, and social structures of a remote, unfamiliar group, they argued that politics were tied up in what scientists did, rather than what they said. Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer use the confrontation between Hobbes and Boyle as a way of understanding what was at stake in the early history of scientific experimentation. They describe the protagonists' divergent views of natural knowledge, and situate the Hobbes-Boyle disputes within contemporary debates over the role of intellectuals in public life and the problems of social order and assent in Restoration England. In a new introduction, the authors describe how science and its social context were understood when this book was first published, and how the study of the history of science has changed since then.
Author |
: Laurie M. Johnson Bagby |
Publisher |
: A&C Black |
Total Pages |
: 147 |
Release |
: 2007-03-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780826486202 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0826486207 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Synopsis Hobbes's 'Leviathan' by : Laurie M. Johnson Bagby
Reading is an essential life skill; it can raise intelligence and develop confidence in learning. Susan Elkin's handy, introductory guide outlines teaching concepts and practical strategies to encourage reading both in and out of the classroom. Topics covered include: - Creative suggestions to encourage reading in all age groups - Ideas to support reading for pleasure as well as for information gathering - Making the most of schemes offering incentives for children to read - This is essential reading for all teachers.
Author |
: Tom Sorell |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 420 |
Release |
: 1996-01-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521422442 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521422444 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes by : Tom Sorell
The most convenient, accessible guide to Hobbes available.