03095nam 2200529 a 450 991046112860332120200520144314.01-283-69547-21-84540-375-4(CKB)2670000000170252(EBL)882061(OCoLC)784885956(SSID)ssj0000656426(PQKBManifestationID)11456167(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000656426(PQKBWorkID)10632193(PQKB)11391530(MiAaPQ)EBC882061(Au-PeEL)EBL882061(CaPaEBR)ebr10559548(CaONFJC)MIL400797(EXLCZ)99267000000017025220120519h20122009 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrHobbes's Behemoth[electronic resource] religion and democracy /edited by Toma MastnakUnited Kingdom Andrews UK2012, c20091 online resource (483 p.)"Originally published in the UK by Imprint Academic. 2009"--T.p. verso.1-84540-176-X Includes bibliographical references.Cover; Contents; Front Matter; Title Page; Copyright Page; Preface; About the Authors; Body Matter; Tomaž Mastnak - Introduction: The Ways of 'Behemoth'; Noel Malcolm - 'Behemoth latinus' - Adam Ebert, Tacitism, and Hobbes; Paul Seaward - 'Chief of the ways of God' - Form and Meaning in the 'Behemoth' of Thomas Hobbes; Johann P. Sommerville - 'Behemoth', Church-State Relations and Political Obligation; A. P. Martinich - Presbyterians in 'Behemoth'; Gabriella Slomp - On Ambition, Greed, and Fear; Patricia Springborg - 'Behemoth' and Hobbes's 'science of just and unjust'Geoffrey M. Vaughan - The Audiences of 'Behemoth' and the Politics of Conversation Michael A. Soubbotnik - De la montagne du diable à la vérité de la loi; Toma Mastnak - Godly Democracy; Ingrid Creppell - The Democratic Element in Hobbes's 'Behemoth'; William Lund - Neither 'Behemoth' nor 'Leviathan' - Explaining Hobbes's Illiberal Politics; Tom Sorell - Schmitt, Hobbes and the Politics of Emergency; Robert P. Kraynak - The Fragility of Civilization in Hobbes's Historical Writings; Back Matter; Also AvailableHobbes's Behemoth has always been overshadowed by his more famous Leviathan, which is arguably his masterpiece and is one of the greatest works of political philosophy. Behemoth, Hobbes's ""booke of the Civill Warr,"" on the other hand, is most often seen as little more than a history of the English Civil War and Interregnum.This volume contains analyses and interpretations of the Behemoth: the structure of its argument, its relation to Hobbes's other writings, and its place in its philosophi...Electronic books.320.01Mastnak Tomaž1032399MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910461128603321Hobbes's Behemoth2450236UNINA