Leviathan after 350 Years

by Tom Sorell, Luc Foisneau

Overview

Tom Sorell and Luc Foisneau present a volume of brand-new new essays which reconsider the significance of Thomas Hobbes's masterpiece after three and a half centuries. The world's leading Hobbes scholars and a few newcomers develop themes that have not received sufficient attention in previous work on Leviathan: the place of the last of Hobbes's treatises in the scheme of Hobbes's political writings; Leviathan's claims about some of the passions with the greatest effects on politics; and the connections between biblical and political authorities. This is a book that anyone working on Hobbes and this period of intellectual history will want to read.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199264612
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	04/15/2004
Series:	Mind Association Occasional Series
Pages:	318
Product dimensions:	9.21(w) x 6.14(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

University of Essex

CNRS, Paris

Table of Contents

Introduction, Tom SorellOne: Leviathan among Hobbes's Political Writings1. Leviathan and De cive, Karl Schuhmann2. Hobbes De Facto? 'A Review and Conclusion', Kinch Hoekstra3. The Uniqueness of Leviathan: Authorizing Poets, Philosophers, and Sovereigns, Ted H. Miller4. Leviathan's Theory of Justice, Luc FoisneauPart Two: Passion and Politics5. The Utopianism of Leviathan, Richard Tuck6. Hobbes and the Classical Theory of Laughter, Quentin Skinner7. The Political Subject, Yves-Charles Zarka8. The Burdensome Freedom of Sovereigns, Tom SorellPart Three: Biblical and Political Authority9. The Covenant with God in Hobbes's Leviathan, Edwin Curley10. The Interpretation of Covenants in Leviathan, A. P. Martinich11. Leviathan, the Pentateuch, and the Origins of Modern Biblical Criticism, Noel Malcolm12. Hobbes's Protestantism, Franck Lessay