On Hobbes

Informationen zum Autor Alan Ryan , after decades at Princeton University, was warden of New College, University of Oxford, where he was a professor of political theory. He is the author of John Dewey and the High Tide of American Liberalism and Bertrand Russell: A Political Life , among other works. Klappentext In Leviathan, Hobbes created the idea of a "social contract" and set out to explicate a doctrine for the foundation of states and legitimate forms of government. In On Hobbes, Ryan explains how he created the secular conception of the state and politics in one of the first truly modern works of political philosophy. Ryan explicates how current notions of individual rights, sovereignty, representative government and almost all liberal political theory find their foundation in Hobbes. Zusammenfassung Hobbes created the first truly modern political philosophy.

Product details

• Authors: Alan Ryan
• Publisher: Norton and Co Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 27.11.2015
• EAN: 9780871408488
• ISBN: 978-0-87140-848-8
• Dimensions: 115 mm x 185 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Liveright; Liveright; Liveright Classics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; Politische Philosophie, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, C 1600 To C 1700