The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy)

Hobbes had distinctive views in metaphysics and epistemology, and wrote about such subjects as history, law, and religion. He also produced full-scale treatises in physics, optics, and geometry. All of these areas are covered in this Companion, most in considerable detail. The volume also reflects the multidisciplinary nature of current Hobbes scholarship by drawing together perspectives on Hobbes that are now being developed in parallel by philosophers, historians of science and mathematics, intellectual historians, political scientists, and literary theorists. It was as a political thinker that Thomas Hobbes first came to prominence, and it is as a political theorist that he is most studied today. Yet the range of his writings extends well beyond morals and politics. Hobbes had distinctive views in metaphysics and epistemology, and wrote about such subjects as history, law, and religion. He also produced full-scale treatises in physics, optics, and geometry. All of these areas are covered in this Companion, most in considerable detail. The volume also reflects the multidisciplinary nature of current Hobbes scholarship by drawing together perspectives that are now being developed in parallel by philosophers, historians of science and mathematics, intellectual historians, political scientists, and literary theorists 1......Page 1 2......Page 13 3......Page 45 4......Page 62 5......Page 86 6......Page 108 7......Page 129 8......Page 157 9......Page 175 10......Page 208 11......Page 246 12......Page 274 13......Page 305 14......Page 329 15......Page 346 16......Page 381 This book examines the work of Thomas Hobbes, including his treatises in physics, optics and geometry, and also reflects the multidisciplinary nature of current Hobbes scholarship

The most convenient, accessible guide to Hobbes available.