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Subverting the Leviathan: Reading Thomas Hobbes as a Radical Democrat

By James , Martel

Book information

Publisher
Columbia University Press
ISBN
9780231511483, 9780231139847, 0231511485
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
1 MB (1377194 bytes)
Pages
323 pages\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
1588-1679;Leviathan. Political science--PhilosophyHobbesThomasThomas;Hobbes

Description

In Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes's landmark work on political philosophy, James Martel argues that although Hobbes pays lip service to the superior interpretive authority of the sovereign, he consistently subverts this authority throughout the book by returning it to the reader. Martel demonstrates that Hobbes's radical method of reading not only undermines his own authority in the text, but, by extension, the authority of the sovereign as well. To make his point, Martel looks closely at Hobbes's understanding of religious and rhetorical representation. In Leviathan, idolatry is not just a matter.;Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; Conclusion; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index.

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