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Biographical
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Hobbes
: A Biography
by A. P. Martinich (Author)
Cambridge University Press; (May 1999)
"A. P. Martinich has written the most complete and
accessible biography
of Hobbes available. The book
takes full account of the historical and
cultural context
in which Hobbes lived, drawing on both published and
unpublished sources." - The Publisher.
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Works
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Three
Discourses:
A Critical Modern Edition of Newly Identified
Work of the Young Hobbes
by Thomas Hobbes, Noel B. Reynolds (Ed.),
Arlene W. Saxonhouse (Ed.)
University of Chicago Press; (April 1997)
"This volume begins with an essay by
the
editors on Hobbes and the
Horae Subsecivae; the texts of the three discourses ("A Discourse
Upon the Beginning of Tacitus," "A Discourse of Rome," and "A
Discourse of Laws"), annotated and with modern spellings, follow.
Part 3 contains an excellent essay by Saxonhouse on Hobbes's place
in modern political thought. Part 4 is a short essay on statistical
wordprinting as an analytical tool. This book deserves a place in all
libraries supporting programs in the history and philosophy of
political thought."—Library Journal.
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Critical Studies
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The
Cambridge Companion to Hobbes
by Tom Sorell (Editor)
Cambridge University Press; (February 1996)
'[T]he aim of The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes is "to
offer
a much broader view of Hobbes's intellectual preoccupations
than is
usually available," and "to bring together the different
perspectives
on Hobbes that are now being developed in parallel
by philosophers,
historians of mathematics and science,
historians of early modern
England, political scientists, and
writers of literary studies." It
succeeds admirably' - Amazon.com
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A
Hobbes Dictionary
(The Blackwell Philosopher Dictionaries)
by Aloysius P. Martinich
Blackwell Publishers; (November 1995)
'This dictionary provides a comprehensive and cohesive
expository
account of about one hundred and fifty key concepts covering the
entire range of Hobbes's thought, from philosophy, political theory
and science, to theology, history and mathematics. Extensively
cross-referenced, the volume also includes a biography of Hobbes,
a chronology of Hobbes's life and works, a chronology of historical
events in the early and mid-seventeenth century, and an annotated
bibliography of Hobbes's major works, contemporary editions, and
main secondary literature.' - Amazon.com
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Aspects
of Hobbes
by Noel Malcolm
Oxford University Press; (January 2003)
'These essays are the fruit of many years' research by one of
the world's
leading Hobbes scholars. Noel Malcolm offers not only succinct
intro-
ductions to Hobbes's life and thought, but also path-breaking
studies of
many different aspects of his political philosophy, his
scientific and religious
theories, his relations with his
contemporaries, the sources of his ideas, the
printing history of his
works, and his influence on European thought. '
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Perspectives
on Thomas Hobbes
(Mind Association Occasional Series)
G. A. J. Rogers and Alan Ryan, Editors
Oxford Univ Pr on Demand; (February 1991)
'Contents: G.A.J. Rogers: Introduction; Richard Tuck:
Hobbes and Descartes; Noel Malcolm: Hobbes and the Royal Society; Tom
Sorell: The science in Hobbes's politics; Alan Ryan: Hobbes and
individualism; François Tricaud: Hobbes's conception of the
state of nature from 1640 to 1651: Evolution and ambiguities; David
Gauthier: Hobbes's social contract; D.D. Raphael: Hobbes on justice;
Arrigo Pacchi: Hobbes and the problem of God; G.A.J. Rogers: Hobbes's
hidden influence; Index of names'
- The Publisher
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Leviathan:
Contemporary Responses to
the Political Theory of Thomas Hobbes
(Key Issues Series)
by G. A. J. Rogers (Editor and Introduction)
Saint Augustine's Pr; (1995)
'Hobbes' Leviathan is one of the greatest works on political
philosophy
ever to have been published and its claims are as widely
debated today
as they were when it first appeared in 1651. In this
collection of
contemporary responses to leviathan, attention is focused
on its critics-
Hobbes had virtually no defenders -who attacked his
moral, political
and religious ideas in a bkistering series of
pamphlets and short books
and, in their criticisms, bring out
powerfully the importance and
originality of Hobbes theory. '
- The Publisher
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Thomas
Hobbes and the Natural Law Tradition
by Norberto Bobbio, Daniela Gobetti (Translator)
University of Chicago Press; (February 1993)
'Tracing Hobbes's work through De Cive and Leviathan, Bobbio
identifies the philosopher's relation to the tradition of natural law.
That Hobbes must now be understood in both this tradition as well as in
the seemingly contradictory positivist tradition becomes clear for the
first time in Bobbio's account... Though his primary concern is to
reconstruct the inner logic of Hobbes's thought, Bobbio is also
attentive to the philosopher's biography and weaves into his analysis
details of Hobbes's life and world... The result is a revealing,
thoroughly new portrait of the first theorist of the modern state.'
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Hobbes
and History
(Routledge Studies in Seventeenth Century Philosophy)
by G. A. J. Rogers (Editor), Tom Sorell (Editor)
Routledge; (July 2000)
'Written by scholars from five countries, this study discusses
Hobbes'
view of the nature of history and the works of history written by him. '
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The
Political Philosophy of Hobbes:
Its Basis and Its Genesis
by Leo Strauss, Elsa M. Sinclair (Translator)
University of Chicago Press; (April 1996)
'In this classic analysis, Leo Strauss pinpoints what is
original and
innovative in the political philosophy of Thomas Hobbes. He
argues that Hobbes's ideas arose not from tradition or science but
from his own deep knowledge and experience of human nature.
Tracing the development of Hobbes's moral doctrine from his early
writings to his major work The Leviathan, Strauss explains
contradictions in the body of Hobbes's work and discovers
startling connections between Hobbes and the thought of Plato,
Thucydides, Aristotle, Descartes, Spinoza, and Hegel.' - Amazon.com
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Reason
and Rhetoric in the Philosophy of Hobbes
by Quentin Skinner
Cambridge University Press; Reprint edition (September 1997)
'This major work from Quentin Skinner presents a fundamental
reappraisal
of the political theory of Hobbes. Using, for the first time, the full
range of
manuscript as well as printed sources, it documents an entirely new view
of Hobbes' intellectual development, and reexamines the shift from a
humanist to a scientific culture in European moral and political
thought.
By examining Hobbes' philosophy against the background of his
humanist education, Professor Skinner rescues this most difficult and
challenging of political philosophers from the intellectual isolation in
which he is so often discussed. ' - Amazon.com
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Liberty,
Rationality, and Agency in Hobbes's Leviathan
by David Van Mill
State Univ of New York Pr; (August 2001)
'Marking a significant departure from most scholarship on
Hobbes, this book offers new interpretations of his theories of
freedom, agency, rationality, morality, psychology, and politics.
Hobbes's arguments concerning many different aspects of civil society
and human psychology are brought together to provide a comprehensive
theory of agency. Hobbes's theory of freedom is demonstrated to be
considerably more complicated than previously thought, revealing a
concern with both "internal" and "external" conditions of action. On
close examination Hobbes can be seen to move beyond his limited
definition of negative liberty and to champion autonomous rational
action. Throughout, the book evaluates the relevance of this
reformulation for contemporary debates in political philosophy.' - Back Cover
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The
Two Gods of Leviathan :
Thomas Hobbes on Religion and Politics
by A. P. Martinich
Cambridge University Press; (April 2003)
'As well as being considered the greatest English political
philosopher, Hobbes has traditionally been thought of as a purely
secular thinker, highly critical of all religion. In this provocative
new study, Professor Martinich argues that conventional wisdom has been
misled. In fact, he shows that religious concerns pervade Leviathan and
that Hobbes was really intent on providing a rational defense of the
Calvinistic Church of England that flourished under the reign of James
I. Professor Martinich presents a close reading of Leviathan in which
he shows that, for Hobbes, Christian doctrine is not politically
destabilizing and is consistent with modern science.' - Amazon.com
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Ideals
as Interests in Hobbes's Leviathan : The Power of Mind over Matter
by S. A. Lloyd
Cambridge University Press; (October, 2003) (Hardcover;April 1992)
'S. A. Lloyd proposes a radically new interpretation of Hobbes's
Leviathan that shows transcendent interests--interests that override
the fear of death--to be crucial to both Hobbes's analysis of social
disorder and his proposed remedy to it. Most previous commentators in
the analytic philosophical tradition have argued that Hobbes thought
that credible threats of physical force could be sufficient to deter
people from political insurrection. Professor Lloyd convincingly shows
that because Hobbes took the transcendence of religious and moral
interests seriously, he never believed that mere physical force could
ensure social order. Lloyd's interpretation demonstrates the
ineliminability of that half of Leviathan devoted to religion, and
attributes to Hobbes a much more plausible conception of human nature
than the narrow psychological egoism traditionally attributed to Hobbes.' - Amazon.com
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Thomas
Hobbes: Skepticism, Individuality and Chastened Politics
by Richard E. Flathman
Rowman & Littlefield; New edition (May 15, 2002)
"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." - Book News, Inc.
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