The Platonian Leviathan /
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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Toronto [Ont.] :
University of Toronto Press,
2010
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Table des matières:
- 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.


