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Leviathan after 350 Years
Edited by Tom Sorell and Luc Foisneau
318 pages
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234x156mm
978-0-19-926461-2
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Hardback
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12 February 2004
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- Original, important new contributions from the world's leading Hobbes scholars
- Brings together British, American, and continental European approaches to the history of philosophy
- All the essays engage with Hobbes's most widely read work
- Major new lines of research are raised and followed
Tom Sorell and Luc Foisneau bring together original essays by the world's leading Hobbes scholars to discuss Hobbes's masterpiece after three and a half centuries.
The contributors address three different themes. The first is the place of Leviathan within Hobbes's output as a political philosopher. What does Leviathan add to The Elements of Law (1640) and De Cive (1642; 1647)? What is the relation between the English Leviathan and the Latin version of the book (1668)? Does Leviathan deserve its pre-eminence?
The second theme concerns the connections between Hobbes's psychology and Hobbes's politics. The essays discuss Hobbes's curious views on
the significance of laughter, evidence that he connected life in the state with passionlessness; the ways in which such things as fear for one's life entitle subjects to rebel; and the question of how the sovereign's personal passions are to be squared with his personifying a multitude.
The third theme is Hobbes's views on the Bible and the Church: contributors examine the tensions between any allowance for ecclesiastical and (differently) biblical authority on the one hand, and political authority on the other.
This is a book which anyone working on Hobbes or on this period of intellectual history will want to read.
Readership: Scholars and students of Hobbes, political theory,
history of philosophy, history of ideas, and early modern religion.
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Edited by Tom Sorell, Department of Philosophy, University of Essex, and Luc Foisneau, CNRS, Paris Contributors:
Tom Sorell, University of Essex
Karl Schuhmann (deceased), University of Utrecht
Kinch Hoekstra, University of Oxford
Ted H. Miller, University of Alabama
Luc Foisneau, CNRS, Paris
Richard Tuck, Harvard University
Quentin Skinner, University of Cambridge
Yves-Charles Zarka, CNRS, Paris
Edwin Curley, University of Michigan
A. P. Martinich, University of Texas
Noel Malcolm, University of Oxford
Franck Lessay, Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris III
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Tom Sorell: Introduction
Part One: Leviathan among Hobbes's Political Writings
1: Karl Schuhmann: Leviathan and De cive
2: Kinch Hoekstra: Hobbes De Facto? 'A Review and Conclusion'
3: Ted H. Miller: The Uniqueness of Leviathan: Authorizing Poets, Philosophers, and Sovereigns
4: Luc Foisneau: Leviathan's Theory of Justice
Part Two: Passion and Politics
5: Richard Tuck: The Utopianism of Leviathan
6: Quentin Skinner: Hobbes and the Classical Theory of Laughter
7: Yves-Charles Zarka: The Political Subject
8: Tom Sorell: The Burdensome Freedom of Sovereigns
Part Three: Biblical and Political Authority
9: Edwin Curley: The Covenant with God in Hobbes's Leviathan
10: A. P. Martinich: The Interpretation of Covenants in Leviathan
11: Noel Malcolm: Leviathan, the Pentateuch, and the Origins of Modern Biblical Criticism
12: Franck Lessay: Hobbes's Protestantism
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