Thomas Hobbes - Skepticism, Individuality, and Chastened Politics

As its subtitle 'Skepticism, Individuality and Chastened Politics' indicates, this book is an exploration of and a largely favorable engagement with salient elements in the thinking of a theorist who is widely regarded as the greatest Anglophone political thinker and among the top rank of philosophical writers generally. In emphazing Hobbes's skepticism, Richard Flathman goes against the grain of much of the literature concerning Hobbes. The theme of individuality is more familiar, particularly from the celebrated writings on Hobbes by Michael Oakeshott, but the idea of a chastened politics challenges the widely influential view that Hobbes was not only an authoritarian but an incipient or proto-totalitarian.

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By Richard E. Flathman

Summary

In emphazing Hobbes's skepticism, Richard Flathman goes against the grain of much of the literature concerning Hobbes. Although primarily an account of Hobbes's thinking, Flathman contends that Hobbes's formulation speaks valuably to issues that remain very much with us.

Product details

• Authors: Richard E Flathman, Richard E. Flathman
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9780742521483
• ISBN: 978-0-7425-2148-3
• No. of pages: 216
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 231 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 426 g
• Series: Modernity and Political Thought; Modernity and Political Though; Modernity and Political Thought; Modernity and Political Though
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous