Aspects of Hobbes

by Noel Malcolm

Overview

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 sources of his ideas, the printing history of his works, and his influence on European thought.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199275403
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	11/11/2004
Pages:	660
Sales rank:	692,792
Product dimensions:	9.14(w) x 6.46(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

All Souls College, Oxford

Table of Contents

Preface1. A Summary Biography of Hobbes2. Hobbes and Spinoza3. Hobbes, Sandys, and the Virginia Company4. Robert Payne, the Hobbes Manuscripts, and the 'Short Tract'5. Hobbes's Science of Politics and his Theory of Science6. Hobbes and Roberval7. The Titlepage of Leviathan, Seen in a Curious Perspective8. Charles Cotton, Translator of Hobbes's De cive9. Pierre de Cardonnel (1614-1667): Merchant, Printer, Poet, and Reader of Hobbes10. Hobbes and the Royal Society11. The Printing of the Bear: New Light on the Second Edition of Hobbes' Leviathan12. Hobbes, Ezra and the Bible: The History of a Subversive Idea13. Hobbes's Theory of International Relations14. Hobbes and the European Republic of LettersList of ManuscriptsBibliographyIndex

Editorial Reviews

"It requires unusual breadth of scholarship to study and illuminate these various and interconnecting dimensions of Hobbes's life and works, but Malcolm is a scholar's scholar. ...Aspects of Hobbes is an unassuming title for what is no less than a landmark in Hobbes studies. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the world of Hobbes."—Renaissance Quarterly

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