History And Modernity In The Thought Of Thomas Hobbes

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History and Modernity in the Thought of Thomas Hobbes

Author : Robert Kraynak
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501745999
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book History and Modernity in the Thought of Thomas Hobbes written by Robert Kraynak and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Kraynak offers a radical reinterpretation of the political thought of Thomas Hobbes and a new assessment of Hobbes's contribution to the origins and problems of modernity. The author argues that it is necessary to examine a neglected facet of Hobbes's thought—his writings on history, especially Behemoth, his lengthy study of the English Civil War. Through a close reading of these works, Kraynak shows how Hobbes came to consider the possibility of a new kind of political science, one that is supremely confident of the power of critical reason to overcome the authorities of the past to build a new form of civilization yet uncertain about reason's foundations.

The Political Works of Thomas Hobbes (4 Books in One Edition)

Author : Thomas Hobbes
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1320 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book The Political Works of Thomas Hobbes (4 Books in One Edition) written by Thomas Hobbes and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-12-24 with total page 1320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The political Works, written by Thomas Hobbes, described his views on how humans could thrive in harmony while avoiding the perils and fear of societal conflict. His experience during a time of upheaval in England influenced his thoughts, which he captured in The Elements of Law , De Cive (On the Citizen), Behemoth, or The Long Parliament and his most famous work, Leviathan. Leviathan, published in 1651, concerns the structure of society and legitimate government, and is regarded as one of the earliest and most influential examples of social contract theory. Written during the English Civil War (1642–1651), Leviathan argues for a social contract and rule by an absolute sovereign. Hobbes wrote that civil war and situations identified with a state of nature and the famous motto Bellum omnium contra omnes ("the war of all against all") could only be averted by strong central government. De Cive ('On the citizen') was Hobbes's first published book of political philosophy. Thomas Hobbes was an English philosopher who is considered one of the founders of modern political philosophy.

Hobbes and Modern Political Thought

Author : Zarka Yves Charles Zarka
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474401201
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Hobbes and Modern Political Thought written by Zarka Yves Charles Zarka and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2016-07-07 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yves Charles Zarka shows you how Hobbes established the framework for modern political thought. Discover the origin of liberalism in the Hobbesian theory of negative liberty; that Hobbesian interest and contract are essential to contemporary discussions of the comportment of economic actors; and how state sovereignty returns anew in the form of the servility of the state. At the same time, Zarka controversially argues against received readings claiming that Hobbes is a thinker of a state monopoly on legitimate violence.

Three Discourses

Author : Thomas Hobbes
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226345451
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (454 download)

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Download or read book Three Discourses written by Thomas Hobbes and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time in three centuries, this book brings back into print three discourses now confirmed to have been written by the young Thomas Hobbes. Their contents may well lead to a resolution of the long-standing controversy surrounding Hobbes's early influences and the subsequent development of his thought. The volume begins with the recent history of the discourses, first published as part of the anonymous seventeenth-century work, Horae Subsecivae. Drawing upon both internal evidence and external confirmation afforded by new statistical "wordprinting" techniques, the editors present a compelling case for Hobbes's authorship. Saxonhouse and Reynolds present the complete texts of the discourse with full annotations and modernized spellings. These are followed by a lengthy essay analyzing the pieces' significance for Hobbes's intellectual development and modern political thought more generally. The discourses provide the strongest evidence to date for the profound influences of Bacon and Machiavelli on the young Hobbes, and they add a new dimension to the much-debated impact of the scientific method on his thought. The book also contains both introductory and in-depth explanations of statistical "wordprinting."

Thomas Hobbes

Author : Richard E. Flathman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742521490
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Thomas Hobbes written by Richard E. Flathman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2002 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his unconventional reading of the political philosophy of Thomas Hobbes, Flathman (political science, Johns Hopkins U.) suggests a liberal reading of Hobbes that is skeptical of ethical and metaphysical arguments that claim to know God or God's moral requirements. This leads to a view that the preferred political order is one in which disagreement and disturbance are to be privileged over an imposed homogeneity or uniformity. The foregoing suggests that we cannot do well without government, but we should chasten our expectations for government to provide the conditions necessary for the pursuit of our individual happiness. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

An Analysis of Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan

Author : Jeremy Kleidosty
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1351350633
Total Pages : 101 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)

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Download or read book An Analysis of Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan written by Jeremy Kleidosty and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Hobbes is a towering figure in the history of modern thought and political philosophy. He remains best remembered for his 1651 treatise on government, Leviathan, a work that shows at the very best the reasoning skills of a deeply original and creative thinker. Creative thinking is all about taking a novel approach to questions and problems – showing them in a new light. When Hobbes was writing Leviathan, the standard approach to understanding (and advocating for) monarchical government was to argue, using Christian theology, that kings and queens gained their power and legitimacy from God. At a time of intense political turmoil in England – with civil war raging from 1642-51 – Hobbes took the original step of basing a political theory upon reason alone, and focusing on human nature. His closely-reasoned arguments made the book a controversial best-seller across Europe at the time of its publication, and it has remained a cornerstone of political theory ever since. Though Hobbes argued for government by an absolute monarch, many of his ideas and precepts helped form modern liberal ideas of government, influencing, among others, the American Constitution.

Hobbes and History

Author : G.A. John Rogers
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134591543
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book Hobbes and History written by G.A. John Rogers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much of Thomas Hobbes's work can be read as historical commentary, taking up questions in the philosophy of history and the rhetorical possibilities of written history. This collection of scholarly essays explores the relation of Hobbes's work to history as a branch of learning.

Hobbes: On the Citizen

Author : Thomas Hobbes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521432047
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Hobbes: On the Citizen written by Thomas Hobbes and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-08-20 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: De Cive (On the Citizen) is the first full exposition of the political thought of Thomas Hobbes, the greatest English political philosopher of all time. Professors Tuck and Silverthorne have undertaken the first complete translation since 1651, a rendition long thought (in error) to be at least sanctioned by Hobbes himself. On the Citizen is written in a clear, straightforward, expository style, offering students a more digestible account of Hobbes' political thought than even Leviathan itself. This new translation is itself a very significant scholarly event.

The Quest for Power

Author : Piotr Hoffman
Publisher : Humanities Press International
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Quest for Power written by Piotr Hoffman and published by Humanities Press International. This book was released on 1996 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work examines two thinkers who can lay claim to be the founding fathers of modern philosophy - Hobbes and Descartes. Although worlds apart on some issues, both thinkers take the same point of departure - Hobbes in political and moral philosophy, and Descartes in epistemology and metaphysics.

Feminist Interpretations of Thomas Hobbes

Author : Nancy J. Hirschmann
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271061359
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Feminist Interpretations of Thomas Hobbes written by Nancy J. Hirschmann and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-06-29 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feminist Interpretations of Thomas Hobbes features the work of feminist scholars who are centrally engaged with Hobbes’s ideas and texts and who view Hobbes as an important touchstone in modern political thought. Bringing together scholars from the disciplines of philosophy, history, political theory, and English literature who embrace diverse theoretical and philosophical approaches and a range of feminist perspectives, this interdisciplinary collection aims to appeal to an audience of Hobbes scholars and nonspecialists alike. As a theorist whose trademark is a compelling argument for absolute sovereignty, Hobbes may seem initially to have little to offer twenty-first-century feminist thought. Yet, as the contributors to this collection demonstrate, Hobbesian political thought provides fertile ground for feminist inquiry. Indeed, in engaging Hobbes, feminist theory engages with what is perhaps the clearest and most influential articulation of the foundational concepts and ideas associated with modernity: freedom, equality, human nature, authority, consent, coercion, political obligation, and citizenship. Aside from the editors, the contributors are Joanne Boucher, Karen Detlefsen, Karen Green, Wendy Gunther-Canada, Jane S. Jaquette, S. A. Lloyd, Su Fang Ng, Carole Pateman, Gordon Schochet, Quentin Skinner, and Susanne Sreedhar.

Hobbes and Bramhall on Liberty and Necessity

Author : Thomas Hobbes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521596688
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (966 download)

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Download or read book Hobbes and Bramhall on Liberty and Necessity written by Thomas Hobbes and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-03-28 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents the famous seventeenth-century debate on freedom between Thomas Hobbes and John Bramhall.

Thomas Hobbes

Author : A P Martinich
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1349251852
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (492 download)

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Download or read book Thomas Hobbes written by A P Martinich and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1996-11-27 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The influence and reputation of Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679), the greatest English political theorist and one of the greatest of all intellectuals, has never been higher than it is now. This book gives a comprehensive treatment of Hobbes' thought in the light of the most important research currently being produced by historians, philosophers, and political scientists. His life and political, religious and scientific views are explained within the cultural context of Stuart England.

Feminist Interpretations of Thomas Hobbes

Author : Nancy J. Hirschmann
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271061375
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Feminist Interpretations of Thomas Hobbes written by Nancy J. Hirschmann and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2012-11-09 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feminist Interpretations of Thomas Hobbes features the work of feminist scholars who are centrally engaged with Hobbes’s ideas and texts and who view Hobbes as an important touchstone in modern political thought. Bringing together scholars from the disciplines of philosophy, history, political theory, and English literature who embrace diverse theoretical and philosophical approaches and a range of feminist perspectives, this interdisciplinary collection aims to appeal to an audience of Hobbes scholars and nonspecialists alike. As a theorist whose trademark is a compelling argument for absolute sovereignty, Hobbes may seem initially to have little to offer twenty-first-century feminist thought. Yet, as the contributors to this collection demonstrate, Hobbesian political thought provides fertile ground for feminist inquiry. Indeed, in engaging Hobbes, feminist theory engages with what is perhaps the clearest and most influential articulation of the foundational concepts and ideas associated with modernity: freedom, equality, human nature, authority, consent, coercion, political obligation, and citizenship. Aside from the editors, the contributors are Joanne Boucher, Karen Detlefsen, Karen Green, Wendy Gunther-Canada, Jane S. Jaquette, S. A. Lloyd, Su Fang Ng, Carole Pateman, Gordon Schochet, Quentin Skinner, and Susanne Sreedhar.

Before Anarchy

Author : Theodore Christov
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316462641
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)

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Download or read book Before Anarchy written by Theodore Christov and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-11 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did the 'Hobbesian state of nature' and the 'discourse of anarchy' - separated by three centuries - come to be seen as virtually synonymous? Before Anarchy offers a novel account of Hobbes's interpersonal and international state of nature and rejects two dominant views. In one, international relations is a warlike Hobbesian anarchy, and in the other, state sovereignty eradicates the state of nature. In combining the contextualist method in the history of political thought and the historiographical method in international relations theory, Before Anarchy traces Hobbes's analogy between natural men and sovereign states and its reception by Pufendorf, Rousseau and Vattel in showing their intellectual convergence with Hobbes. Far from defending a 'realist' international theory, the leading political thinkers of early modernity were precursors of the most enlightened liberal theory of international society today. By demolishing twentieth-century anachronisms, Before Anarchy bridges the divide between political theory, international relations and intellectual history.

Elements of Law, Natural and Political

Author : Thomas Hobbes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135155577
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)

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Download or read book Elements of Law, Natural and Political written by Thomas Hobbes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-23 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1969. This collection of publications by Thomas Hobbes discusses the Civil Wars, written in the 1600s, deals in the controversial with a complete review of the Great Rebellion's events. Hobbes found attention from their first systematic political work, an early statement of his doctrines. These political, often philosophical works also track the deviation in his work as his devotion to religion increases.

Behemoth Teaches Leviathan

Author : Geoffrey M. Vaughan
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739120934
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Behemoth Teaches Leviathan written by Geoffrey M. Vaughan and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2007-03 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did Hobbes's political philosophy have practical intentions? There exists no "Hobbist" school of thought; no new political order was inspired by Hobbesian precepts. Yet in Behemoth Teaches Leviathan Geoffrey M. Vaughan revisits Behemoth to reveal hitherto unexplored pedagogic purpose to Hobbes's political philosophy. The work demonstrates Hobbes's firm commitment to government and his attempts to create a system of political education to underpin his commitment to sovereignty. Vaughan explore Hobbes's political education in detail and in an epilogue considers the resurgence of political education in contemporary liberal theory. He discovers that contemporary political education has far more in common with Hobbes's system than it does with early liberalism.

Modernity and Its Discontents

Author : Steven B. Smith
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300220987
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Modernity and Its Discontents written by Steven B. Smith and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steven B. Smith examines the concept of modernity, not as the end product of historical developments but as a state of mind. He explores modernism as a source of both pride and anxiety, suggesting that its most distinctive characteristics are the self-criticisms and doubts that accompany social and political progress. Providing profiles of the modern project’s most powerful defenders and critics—from Machiavelli and Spinoza to Saul Bellow and Isaiah Berlin—this provocative work of philosophy and political science offers a novel perspective on what it means to be modern and why discontent and sometimes radical rejection are its inevitable by-products.