TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bunce,R.E.R.
TI  - Thomas Hobbes
T2  - Major conservative and libertarian thinkers
SN  - 9781441170231
AV  - JC153.H66 B86 2009eb
U1  - 192 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - New York
PB  - Continuum
KW  - Hobbes, Thomas,
KW  - Hobbes, Thomas
KW  - Hobbes, Thomas.
KW  - Political science
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - 17th century
KW  - Philosophers
KW  - Biography
KW  - Political scientists
KW  - Philosophes
KW  - Grande-Bretagne
KW  - Biographies
KW  - Politologues
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - PHILOSOPHY
KW  - History & Surveys
KW  - Modern
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - gtlm
KW  - lcgft
KW  - rvmgf
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-156) and index; Hobbes's life -- Hobbes's civil philosophy -- Reception and interpretation -- Hobbes today
N2  - In this volume, Dr Bounce (University of Cambridge) introduces Hobbes' ambitious philosophical project to discover the principles that govern the social world. Although we may dispute Hobbes' immodest assessment that he successfully attained this goal, Bunce nevertheless captures the extraordinary enduring value of Hobbes' work for the contemporary reader. Thomas Hobbes's name and the title of his most famous work, Leviathan, have come to be synonymous with the idea that the natural state of humankind is 'nasty, brutish, and short' and only the intervention of a munificent overlord may spare m
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