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Hobbes and history /

This collection of scholarly essays explores the relation of Hobbes' work to history as a branch of learning.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Rogers, G. A. J. (Graham Alan John), 1938-, Sorell, Tom
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.
Series:Routledge studies in seventeenth-century philosophy.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Book Cover; Title; Contents; Common abbreviations; Notes on contributors; Introduction; Hobbes and history; Hobbes's concept of history; When Hobbes needed history; Hobbes and historiography: Why the future, he says, does not exist; Hobbes, history and wisdom; Hobbes's uses of the history of philosophy; Hobbesian histories; Hobbes and Tacitus; The peace of silence: Thucydides and the English Civil War; Hobbes's Behemoth; Hobbes and sacred history; Hobbes, Selden, Erastianism, and the history of the Jews; Index.