Cambridge Companion to Hobbes's Leviathan

Name: Cambridge Companion to Hobbes's Leviathan
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ISBN: 9780521545211

ISBN-10: 0521545218

ISBN-13: 9780521545211

Edition: 2007

Authors: Patricia Springborg

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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,…

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List price: $41.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 7/23/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 556
Size: 6.06" wide x 9.02" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 1.628
Language: English



Introduction Patricia Springborg



Of Man



Hobbes's visual strategy




The beast of myth: Medusa, Dionysus and the riddle of Hobbes's sovereign monster




Sense and nonsense about sense: Hobbes and the Aristotelians on sense perception and imagination




Hobbes on the natural condition of mankind




Hobbes's moral philosophy




Of Commonwealth



Hobbes on persons, authors, and representatives




Hobbes on glory and civil strife




Hobbes and the philosophical origins of liberalism




The basis for the right to punish in




Of a Christian Commonwealth



Hobbes's covenant theology and its political implications




Omnipotence, necessity, and sovereignty: Hobbes and the absolute powers of God and king




Hobbes on salvation




Hobbes and the cause of religious toleration




Of the Kingdom of Darkness



Hobbes's critique of the doctrine of essences and its sources




Leviathan and its Anglican context




The Bible and Protestantism in Leviathan




The 1668 appendix and Hobbes's theological project




Hobbes's Reception



Leviathan and Hobbes's contemporaries




The reception of Hobbes's Leviathan




Hobbes, Clarendon, and Leviathan




Silencing Thomas Hobbes: the Presbyterians and Leviathan