Aspects Of Hobbes

Table Of Contents
Preface
1. A Summary Biography Of Hobbes
2. Hobbes And Spinoza
3. Hobbes, Sandys, And The Virginia Company
4. Robert Payne, The Hobbes Manuscripts, And The ‘Short Tract’
5. Hobbes’s Science Of Politics And His Theory Of Science
6. Hobbes And Roberval
7. The Titlepage Of Leviathan , Seen In A Curious Perspective
8. Charles Cotton, Translator Of Hobbes’s De Cive
9. Pierre De Cardonnel (1614-1667): Merchant, Printer, Poet, And Reader Of Hobbes
10. Hobbes And The Royal Society
11. The Printing Of The Bear: New Light On The Second Edition Of Hobbes’ Leviathan
12. Hobbes, Ezra And The Bible: The History Of A Subversive Idea
13. Hobbes’s Theory Of International Relations
14. Hobbes And The European Republic Of Letters
List Of Manuscripts
Bibliography
Index

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Description
Noel Malcolm, one of the world’s leading experts on Thomas Hobbes, presents a set of extended essays on a wide variety of aspects of the life and work of this giant of early modern thought. Malcolm offers a succinct introduction to Hobbes’s life and thought, as a foundation for his discussion of such topics as his political philosophy, his theory of international relations, the development of his mechanistic world-view, and his subversive Biblical criticism. Several of the essays pay special attention to the European dimensions of Hobbes’s life, his sources and his influence; the longest surveys the entire European reception of his work from the 1640s to the 1750s. All the essays are based on a deep knowledge of primary sources, and many present striking new discoveries about Hobbes’s life, his manuscripts, and the printing history of his works. Aspects of Hobbes will be essential reading not only for Hobbes specialists, but also for all those interested in seventeenth-century intellectual history more generally, both British and European.