03137nam 22005055 450 991033805420332120200707021405.03-030-02880-110.1007/978-3-030-02880-0(CKB)4100000007334840(MiAaPQ)EBC5626866(DE-He213)978-3-030-02880-0(PPN)259461350(EXLCZ)99410000000733484020181228d2019 u| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierA Reader’s Companion to The Prince, Leviathan, and the Second Treatise[electronic resource] /by John T. Bookman1st ed. 2019.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2019.1 online resource (230 pages)3-030-02879-8 1. Introduction: Historical Context and Textual Interpretation -- 2. The Prince -- 3. Leviathan -- 4. Second Treatise -- 5. A Critique.Machiavelli, Hobbes, and Locke each sought a new foundation for political order. This book serves as a reader's companion to Machiavelli’s The Prince, Hobbes’s Leviathan, and Locke’s Second Treatise written for graduate students and scholars seeking a fuller understanding of these classic texts. How do these philosophers respond to perennial questions such as why anyone is ever obligated to obey a government and whether there are any limits to such an obligation. In this book, Bookman begins by sorting out the hermeneutical controversy between textualists and contextualists, offers a chapter-by-chapter commentary on the texts punctuated by questions for the reader’s reflection, and finally suggests a firmer foundation for a theory of political obligation than Hobbes’s and Locke’s consent theories. Also included are bibliographical essays keyed to select bibliographies, providing readers with a wide-ranging, critical review of the secondary literature. Intended to be read alongside the primary work, the work is a full intellectual, critical, and bibliographical history, as well as a fresh examination of three classic texts in political theory and philosophy.Political theoryPolitical philosophyDemocracyPolitical Theoryhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/911010Political Philosophyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/E37000Democracyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/911050Political theory.Political philosophy.Democracy.Political Theory.Political Philosophy.Democracy.320.1Bookman John Tauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1061930BOOK9910338054203321A Reader’s Companion to The Prince, Leviathan, and the Second Treatise2521426UNINA