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ISBN
9780141395098
Published
2017
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Weight
473 gr
Height
198 mm
Width
130 mm
Thickness
30 mm
Age
01, G, P, U, 01, 06, 05
Language
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Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
688
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Biographical note
Thomas Hobbes (Author)Thomas Hobbes was an English philosopher. Born in Malmesbury, Wiltshire, he studied at Oxford and spent most of his life employed by the aristocratic Cavendish family. His publications included a translation of Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War (1629); a comprehensive philosophical system set out in his trilogy, De Corpore (1655), De Homine (1658), and De Cive (1642); and the major statement of his political theory, Leviathan (1651). He died at Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire.'
Christopher Brooke (External Editor)
Christopher Brooke is a lecturer at Cambridge University in the Department of Politics and International Studies, and author of Philosophic Pride: Stoicism and Political Thought from Lipsius to Rousseau (2012).
'The life of man, solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short'
Written during the chaos of the English Civil War, Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan asks how, in a world of violence and horror, can we stop ourselves from descending into anarchy? Hobbes' case for a 'common-wealth' under a powerful sovereign - or 'Leviathan' - to enforce security and the rule of law, shocked his contemporaries, and his book was publicly burnt for sedition the moment it was published. But his penetrating work of political philosophy opened up questions about the nature of statecraft and society that influenced governments across the world.
Edited with an Introduction by Christopher Brooke
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This new Penguin Classics edition has a fully revised text and a major new introduction by Christopher Brooke.
Product details
ISBN
9780141395098
Published
2017
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Weight
473 gr
Height
198 mm
Width
130 mm
Thickness
30 mm
Age
01, G, P, U, 01, 06, 05
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
688
Author
Edited by
Biographical note
Thomas Hobbes (Author)Thomas Hobbes was an English philosopher. Born in Malmesbury, Wiltshire, he studied at Oxford and spent most of his life employed by the aristocratic Cavendish family. His publications included a translation of Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War (1629); a comprehensive philosophical system set out in his trilogy, De Corpore (1655), De Homine (1658), and De Cive (1642); and the major statement of his political theory, Leviathan (1651). He died at Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire.'
Christopher Brooke (External Editor)
Christopher Brooke is a lecturer at Cambridge University in the Department of Politics and International Studies, and author of Philosophic Pride: Stoicism and Political Thought from Lipsius to Rousseau (2012).