Taming the Leviathan - The Reception of Political Religious Ideas of Thomas Hobbes in

Klappentext A wide-ranging study of the English reception of Hobbes's political and religious ideas. Zusammenfassung Hobbes is widely acknowledged to be the most important political philosopher to have written in English. Taming the Leviathan is a wide-ranging study of the English reception of Hobbes's political and religious ideas! tracing the fate of his texts and the development of his controversial reputation during the seventeenth century. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Reading Hobbes before Leviathan, 1640-1651; 2. Leviathan 1651-1654; 3. The storm 1654-1658; 4. Restoration 1658-1666; 5. Hobbes and Hobbism 1666-1675; 6. Hobbes and the Restoration Crisis 1675-1685; 7. Hobbism in the Glorious Revolution 1685-1700; Conclusion; Bibliography.

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• Authors: Jon Parkin, Jon (University of York) Parkin
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.11.2010
• EAN: 9780521168311
• ISBN: 978-0-521-16831-1
• No. of pages: 470
• Series: Ideas in Context
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education