Correspondence of Thomas Hobbes: Volume Ii: 1660-1679

Zusatztext This is the first complete collection of the correspondence of Hobbes and as such fills an important gap in the published writing of the man who is probably the most important political philosopher of the modern age. Noel Malcolm has done an admirable job of assembling and annotating the correspondence ... Scholars will find the correspondence an important tool for understanding the life and works of Thomas Hobbes. Informationen zum Autor Noel Malcolm is the political columnist on the Daily Telegraph, and is well-known for his work on the current Balkan crisis. He was formerly Political Correspondent, and then Foreign editor, on the Spectator (1987-1991), which he joined after giving up his teaching fellowship at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. As well as working as one of the General Editors of the Clarendon Edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes, he has contributed to many collective volumes, including the chapter Hobbes and Spinoza in The Cambridge History of Political Thought (CUP, 1991), and is author of De Dominis (1560-1624): Venetian, Anglican, Ecumenist and Relapsed Heretic (Strickland & Scott, 1984). Klappentext Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) is one of the most important figures in the history of European thought. Although interest in his life and work has grown enomrously in recent years, this is the first complete edition of his correspondence. The texts of the letters are richly supplemented with explanatory notes and full biographical and bibliographical information. This landmark publication sheds new light in abundance on the intellectual life of a major thinker. Zusammenfassung This second of two volumes contains the letters of Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679), supplemented with explanatory notes, and full biographical and bibliographical information. This publication sheds new light on the intellectual life of a major European thinker.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Hobbes, Hobbes Thomas
• Assisted by: Noel Malcolm (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.09.1994
• EAN: 9780198240990
• ISBN: 978-0-19-824099-0
• No. of pages: 512
• Series: Clarendon Edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes; Correspondence of Thomas Hobbe; Clarendon Edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes; Clarendon Edition of the Works; The Correspondence of Thomas Hobbes
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; England, History of Ideas, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Philosophers, Autobiography: general, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, HISTORY / Social History, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, History of Western philosophy, Autobiography: philosophy and social sciences