Author:
Springborg, Patricia.
Imprint:Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Descriptionxviii, 533 p. ; 24 cm.
Note:General introduction / Patricia Springborg - Thomas Hobbes;s visual strategies / Horst Bredekamp. - Leviathan the beast of myth: Medusa, Dionysos, and the riddle of Hobbes's Sovereign monster / Johan Tralau. - Sense and nonsense about sense: Hobbes and the Aristotelians on sense perception and imagination / Cees Leijenhorst. - Hobbes on the natural condition of mankind / Kinch Hoekstra. - Hobbes's moral philosophy / Tom Sorell. - Hobbes on persons, authors and representatives / Quintin Skinner. - Hobbes on glory and civil srtife / Gabriella Slomp. - Hobbes and the philosophical sources of liberalism / Lucien Jaume. - Hobbes on the right to punish / Dieter Hüning. - Hobbes covenant theology and its political implications / Franck Lessay. - Omnipotence, necessity and sovereignty: Hobbes and the absolut and ordinary powers of God and king / luc Foisneau. - Hobbes on salvation / Roberto Farnett. - Hobbes and the cause of religious toleration / Edwin Curley. - Hobbes's critique of the doctrine of essences and its source / Gianni Paganini. - Leviathan and its Anglican context / Johann Sommerville. - The Bible and Protestantism in Leviathan / A.P. Martinich. - the 1668 Appendix and Hobbes's Theological Project / George Wright. - Hobbes and his contemporaries / G.A.J. Rogers. - THe reception of Hobbes's Leviathan / Jon Parkin. - Clarendon against Leviathan / Perez Zagorin. - Silencing Thomas Hobbes: THe Presbyterians and Leviathan / Jeffrey R. Collins.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
