Hobbes''s on the Citizen - A Critical Guide

This is the first book-length study in English of Thomas Hobbes's On the Citizen. The volume comprises twelve original essays, which show that it is a valuable and distinctive philosophical work in its own right. The volume is aimed at Hobbes specialists and graduate students.

List of contents

Introduction Robin Douglass and Johan Olsthoorn; 1. Excavating On the Citizen Deborah Baumgold and Ryan Harding; 2. Hobbes and Aristotle on the foundation of political science Nicholas Gooding and Kinch Hoekstra; 3. All the mind's pleasure: glory, self-admiration, and moral motivation in On the Citizen and Leviathan S. A. Lloyd; 4. The right of nature and political disobedience: Hobbes's puzzling thought experiment Susanne Sreedhar; 5. Motivation, reason, and the good in On the Citizen Michael LeBuffe; 6. Property and despotic sovereignty Laurens van Apeldoorn; 7. Sovereignty and dominium: the foundations of Hobbesian statehood Daniel Lee; 8. Corporate persons without authorization Michael J. Green; 9. Hobbes on love and fear of God Thomas Holden; 10. 'A rhapsody of heresies': the scriptural politics of On the Citizen Alison McQueen; 11. On the Citizen and church-state relations Johann Sommerville; 12. Sovereign-making and biblical covenants in On the Citizen A. P. Martinich.

About the author

Robin Douglass is Reader in Political Theory at King's College London.Johan Olsthoorn is Assistant Professor in Political Theory at the Universiteit van Amsterdam and is a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Research Foundation (FWO)-Flanders at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.

Summary

This is the first book-length study in English of Thomas Hobbes's On the Citizen. The volume comprises twelve original essays, which show that it is a valuable and distinctive philosophical work in its own right. The volume is aimed at Hobbes specialists and graduate students.

Product details

• Authors: Robin Douglass, Robin (King''''s College London) Olsthoo Douglass
• Assisted by: Robin Douglass (Editor), Robin (King's College London) Douglass (Editor), Douglass Robin (Editor), Johan Olsthoorn (Editor), Johan (Universiteit van Amsterdam) Olsthoorn (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2020
• EAN: 9781108421980
• ISBN: 978-1-108-42198-0
• No. of pages: 226
• Series: Cambridge Critical Guides
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; Philosophiegeschichte, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought