The Platonian Leviathan /

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Thomas Hobbes's influential political treatise, Leviathan, was first published in 1651. Many scholars have since credited him with a mechanistic outlook towards human nature that established the basis of modern Western political philosophy from the perspective of social contract theory. In The...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Craig, Leon Harold
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, ©2010
Subjects:
Hobbes, Thomas, > 1588-1679. > Leviathan.
Leviathan (Hobbes, Thomas)
Political science > Philosophy.
Political science > Early works to 1800.
State, The.
État.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Essays.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Reference.
Political science.
Early works.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • A Melvillian overture : Moby-Dick and philosophy
  • Part one, The problematical Leviathan : Kakaphonia
  • A Conradian intermezzo : variations on the state of nature
  • Part two, The platonic Leviathan : Harmonia
  • A Melvillian coda : Moby-Dick as fourfold allegory.

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