The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes's Leviathan (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy)

This Companion makes a new departure in Hobbes scholarship, addressing a philosopher whose impact was as great on Continental European theories of state and legal systems as it was at home. This volume is a systematic attempt to incorporate work from both the Anglophone and Continental traditions, bringing together newly commissioned work by scholars from ten different countries in a topic-by-topic sequence of essays that follows the structure of Leviathan, re-examining the relationship among Hobbes's physics, metaphysics, politics, psychology, and religion. Collectively they showcase important revisionist scholarship that re-examines both the context for Leviathan and its reception, demonstrating the degree to which Hobbes was indebted to the long tradition of European humanist thought. This Cambridge Companion shows that Hobbes's legacy was never lost and that he belongs to a tradition of reflection on political theory and governance that is still alive, both in Europe and in the diaspora. Series page Copyright Contents Illustrations Contributors Method of Citation General Introduction / Patricia Springborg Part I Of Man 1 Thomas Hobbes’s Visual Strategies / Horst Bredekamp 2 Leviathan, the Beast of Myth: Medusa, Dionysos, and the Riddle of Hobbes’s Sovereign Monster / Johan Tralau 3 Sense and Nonsense about Sense: Hobbes and the Aristotelians on Sense Perception and Imagination / Cees Leijenhorst 4 Hobbes on the Natural Condition of Mankind / Kinch Hoekstra 5 Hobbes’s Moral Philosophy / Tom Sorell Part II Of Commonwealth 6 Hobbes on Persons, Authors and Representatives / Quentin Skinner 7 Hobbes on Glory and Civil Strife / Gabriella Slomp 8 Hobbes and the Philosophical Sources of Liberalism / Lucien Jaume 9 Hobbes on the Right to Punish / Dieter Hüning Part III Of a Christian Commonwealth 10 Hobbes’s Covenant Theology and Its Political Implications / Franck Lessay 11 Omnipotence, Necessity and Sovereignty: Hobbes and the Absolute and Ordinary Powers of God and King / Luc Foisneau 12 Hobbes on Salvation / Roberto Farneti 13 Hobbes and the Cause of Religious Toleration / Edwin Curley Part IV Of the Kingdom of Darkness 14 Hobbes’s Critique of the Doctrine of Essences and Its Sources / Gianni Paganini 15 Leviathan and Its Anglican Context / Johann Sommerville 16 The Bible and Protestantism in Leviathan / A. P. Martinich 17 The 1668 Appendix and Hobbes’s Theological Project / George Wright Part V Hobbes’s Reception 18 Hobbes and His Contemporaries / G. A. J. Rogers 19 The Reception of Hobbes’s Leviathan / Jon Parkin 20 Clarendon against Leviathan / Perez Zagorin 21 Silencing Thomas Hobbes: The Presbyterians and Leviathan / Jeffrey R. Collins Select Bibliography bibliographic sources, grammars, and lexicons manuscripts hobbes’s works other primary sources secondary sources Index This Book Indicates That Hobbes's Legacy Was Never Lost And That He Belongs To A Tradition Of Reflection On Political Theory And Governance That Is Still Alive, Both In Europe And In The Diaspora. Of Man -- Of Commonwealth -- Of A Christian Commonwealth -- Of The Kingdom Of Darkness -- Hobbes's Reception. Edited By Patricia Springborg. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 501-521) And Index. The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes's 'Leviathan' makes a new departure in Hobbes scholarship, addressing a philosopher whose major works, including Leviathan, were published in Latin on the Continent, and whose impact was as great on Continental European theories of state and legal systems as it was at home.