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Leviathan

Thomas Hobbes

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'The life of man, solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short'

Written during the chaos of the English Civil War, Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan asks how, in a world of violence and horror, can we stop ourselves from descending into anarchy? Hobbes' case for a 'common-wealth' under a powerful sovereign - or 'Leviathan' - to enforce security and the rule of law, shocked his contemporaries, and his book was publicly burnt for sedition the moment it was published. But his penetrating work of political philosophy - now fully revised and with a new introduction for this edition - opened up questions about the nature of statecraft and society that influenced governments across the world.

Format:: Paperback

Pages:: 736 pages

Publication:: 1981

Publisher:: Penguin Books

Edition:: Penguin Classics

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0140431950

ISBN13:: 9780140431957

kindle Asin:: B07DZQWBNX

Leviathan

Thomas Hobbes

3.71/5 (45562 ratings)

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'The life of man, solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short'

Written during the chaos of the English Civil War, Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan asks how, in a world of violence and horror, can we stop ourselves from descending into anarchy? Hobbes' case for a 'common-wealth' under a powerful sovereign - or 'Leviathan' - to enforce security and the rule of law, shocked his contemporaries, and his book was publicly burnt for sedition the moment it was published. But his penetrating work of political philosophy - now fully revised and with a new introduction for this edition - opened up questions about the nature of statecraft and society that influenced governments across the world.

Format:: Paperback

Pages:: 736 pages

Publication:: 1981

Publisher:: Penguin Books

Edition:: Penguin Classics

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0140431950

ISBN13:: 9780140431957

kindle Asin:: B07DZQWBNX

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