Hobbes and the making of modern political thought / Gordon Hull.
Material type: TextSeries: Continuum studies in British philosophyPublication details: London ; New York : Continuum, ©2009.Description: 1 online resource (x, 206 pages)Content type:- text
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- 9781441195562
- 1441195564
- 9781441157744
- 1441157743
- 1282453092
- 9781282453098
- 320.1092 22
- B1247 .H85 2009eb
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 182-196) and index.
Introduction : the politics of construction -- A genealogical context of modern political thought -- More geometrico -- Nominalism redux -- The state of nature -- Constructing politics -- Conclusion : from erasing nature to producing the multitude.
Hobbes and the Making of Modern Political Thought considers what it is that makes the study of Hobbes so compelling. Gordon Hull reads Hobbes as the first 'modern' political philosopher. In Hobbes we find the combination of an anomalous and anachronistic view of geometry and a radical, almost post-modern understanding of language. After situation Hobbes against the late scholastic and Machiavellian traditions against which he wrote, the book studies Hobbes's neglected writings on mathematics and language. That analysis then motivates a rereading of his famous pronouncements about the state of.
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