Leviathan: Or The Matter, Forme, And Power Of A Common-wealth Ecclesiastical And Civil (Skeptical Reader Ser.)
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- Synopsis
- '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 - now fully revised and with a new introduction for this edition - opened up questions about the nature of statecraft and society that influenced governments across the world. Edited with a new introduction by Christopher Brooke
- Copyright:
- 2010
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- ISBN-13:
- 9780141395104
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780141395098
- Publisher:
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Date of Addition:
- 07/27/18
- Copyrighted By:
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Philosophy, Politics and Government, Sociology
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