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Images of anarchy : the rhetoric and science in Hobbes's state of nature /
This book examines the development of the natural condition of mankind throughout Hobbes' works and traces its origins in his sources of inspiration.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Dedication; Title page; Copyright information; Table of contents; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; Prologue; Secretly Instructing the Readers; A Kind of Science; Part I A Græcian; 1 Politic Historiography; The Unreliability of Self-Reliance; The Historian's Partiality; Thucydides' Solution: Letting Events Speak for Themselves; 2 Winning Belief in the Hearer; A Rhetorician; Part II A Devotion to Peace; 3 Unobjectionable Foundations; Privation; A Certain Equality, an Uncertain Anarchy; 4 The Birth of Civil Philosophy; A Mirror of Princes.
- The State of Men without Civil SocietyAn Actual Contract; 5 Reason of State; Epic Poetry; Part III Images "Historical or Fabulous"; 6 Lapse and Relapse or the First Rebellion; What Hobbes Said about Genesis; What Hobbes Did Not Say about Genesis; 7 Another Scripture; Thucydides, Anew; 8 America; Part IV A Science of Rhetoric; 9 All Things to All People; Elitism for All: Dissimulation and the Foolishness of the Wise; Epilogue; List of Manuscripts; Bibliography; Index.