Images of Anarchy - The Rhetoric and Science in Hobbes''s State of Nature

Informationen zum Autor Ioannis D. Evrigenis is Associate Professor Political Science, with a secondary appointment in Classics, at Tufts University, Massachusetts, where he directs the Bodin Project. He is the author of Fear of Enemies and Collective Action, which received the Delba Winthrop Award for Excellence in Political Science, and coeditor of Herder's Another Philosophy of History and Selected Political Writings. Klappentext This book examines the development of the natural condition of mankind throughout Hobbes's works and traces its origins in his sources of inspiration. Zusammenfassung This book examines the development of the natural condition of mankind throughout Hobbes's works and traces its origins in his sources of inspiration. The resulting trajectory of the state of nature illuminates the ways in which Hobbes employed a rhetoric of science and a science of rhetoric in his relentless pursuit of peace. Inhaltsverzeichnis Prologue; Part I. A Græcian: 1. Politic historiography; 2. Winning belief in the hearer; Part II. A Devotion to Peace: 3. Unobjectionable foundations: the elements of law, natural and politic; 4. The birth of civil philosophy: De Cive; 5. Reason of state: Leviathan; Part III. Images 'Historical or Fabulous': 6. Lapse and relapse, or, the first rebellion; 7. Another scripture; 8. America; Part IV. A Science of Rhetoric: 9. All things to all people; Epilogue.

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• Authors: Ioannis D. Evrigenis, Ioannis D. (Tufts University Evrigenis, Evrigenis Ioannis D.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.04.2016
• EAN: 9781316608005
• ISBN: 978-1-316-60800-5
• No. of pages: 312
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Media Studies, Cultural Studies, Political Ideologies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Society & culture: general, Politics & government, Ethics and moral philosophy, Political science and theory, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Political Control & Freedoms, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge