Leviathan After 350 Years

Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-0-19-926461-2
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 318 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 646 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sorell, Tom

Foisneau, Luc

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 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

Über Autor(innen)

Sorell, Tom (Department of Philosophy, University of Essex) / Foisneau, Luc (CNRS, Paris)