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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780332303321

Autore

Malcolm Noel

Titolo

Aspects of Hobbes [[electronic resource] /] / Noel Malcolm

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Clarendon Press

New York, : Oxford University Press, 2002

ISBN

0-19-927540-8

1-281-93038-5

9786611930387

0-19-152998-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (657 p.)

Disciplina

192

Soggetti

Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [553]-605) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Abbreviations and references; 1. A Summary Biography of Hobbes; 2. Hobbes and Spinoza; 3. Hobbes, Sandys, and the Virginia Company; 4. Robert Payne, the Hobbes Manuscripts, and the 'Short Tract'; 5. Hobbes's Science of Politics and his Theory of Science; 6. Hobbes and Roberval; 7. The Title Page of Leviathan, Seen in a Curious Perspective; 8. Charles Cotton, Translator of Hobbes's De cive; 9. Pierre de Cardonnel (1614-1667): Merchant, Printer, Poet, and Reader of Hobbes; 10. Hobbes and the Royal Society

11. The Printing of the 'Bear': New Light on the Second Edition of Hobbes's Leviathan12. Hobbes, Ezra, and the Bible: The History of a Subversive Idea; 13. Hobbes's Theory of International Relations; 14. Hobbes and the European Republic of Letters; List of Manuscripts; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Aspects of Hobbes is a major event in the study of Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679), one of the giants of early modern thought. These essays are the fruit of many years' research by one of the world's leading Hobbes scholars. Noel Malcolm offers not only succinct introductions 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 sourcesof his ideas,



the printing history of his works, and his influence on European thought. - ;Noel Malcolm, one of the world's