The Oxford Handbook of Hobbes

The Oxford Handbook of Hobbes collects twenty-six newly commissioned, original chapters on the philosophy of the English thinker Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679). Best known today for his important influence on political philosophy, Hobbes was in fact a wide and deep thinker on a diverse range of issues. The chapters included in this Oxford Handbook cover the full range of Hobbes's thought--his philosophy of logic and language; his view of physics and scientific method; his ethics, political philosophy, and philosophy of law; and his views of religion, history, and literature. Several of the chapters overlap in fruitful ways, so that the reader can see the richness and depth of Hobbes's thought from a variety of perspectives. The contributors are experts on Hobbes from many countries, whose home disciplines include philosophy, political science, history, and literature. A substantial introduction places Hobbes's work, and contemporary scholarship on Hobbes, in a broad context.

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• Authors: Kinch Hoekstra, A. P. Martinich, A. P. Hoekstra Martinich
• Assisted by: Kinch Hoekstra (Editor), Kinch (Chancellor's Professor of Political Science and Law and Affiliated Professor of Philosophy and of Classics Hoekstra (Editor), Hoekstra Kinch (Editor), A. P. Martinich (Editor), A.P. Martinich (Editor), A.P. (Professor in Philosophy and Professor of History and Government Martinich (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.04.2016
• EAN: 9780199791941
• ISBN: 978-0-19-979194-1
• No. of pages: 664
• Dimensions: 183 mm x 254 mm x 40 mm
• Series: Oxford Handbooks
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, LAW / General, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, HISTORY / World, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, History: earliest times to present day, General and world history, Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law