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Made with Words: Hobbes on Language, Mind, and Politics

By Philip Pettit

Book information

Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
2008
ISBN
0691129290, 9780691129297
LCC
B1247 .P48 2008
Open Library ID
OL11182900M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
964 kB (987603 bytes)
Edition
First Edition
Pages
186\186
Time added
2010-10-03 22:52:24

Description

Philip Pettit always writes with a clarity most scholars can only feign as a virtue of their disciplines. Made with Words picks up on his earlier, famous work on the concept of freedom, and uses it as a backdrop for analyzing Hobbes - someone everyone likes to criticize, but rarely read with sympathy. Pettit's book is a welcome change to this tendency to see Hobbes as something to quickly reject before moving on to one's own theory, instead taking the sophistication of what Hobbes offers seriously and using it to make many important claims, including the claim that Hobbes' reputation as a revolutionary thinker is well deserved, for his work is not only revolutionary, but a model of philosophical thinking.

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