Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan

The life of man, solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short'.
ISBN: 9780141395098
Author: Thomas Hobbes
Page: 631
Binding: Soft cover
Publication date: 2017
Format: Book
Publisher: PENGUIN
Language: English

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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

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