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First published in 1938, The Leviathan in the State Theory of Thomas Hobbes used the Enlightenment philosopher's enduring symbol of the protective Leviathan to address the nature of modern statehood.
Author : Carl Schmitt
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 32,21 MB
Release : 2008-10-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0226738949
First published in 1938, The Leviathan in the State Theory of Thomas Hobbes used the Enlightenment philosopher's enduring symbol of the protective Leviathan to address the nature of modern statehood.
Author : Thomas Hobbes
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 13,43 MB
Release : 2012-10-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 048612214X
Written during a moment in English history when the political and social structures were in flux and open to interpretation, Leviathan played an essential role in the development of the modern world.
Author : James R. Martel
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 18,53 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Political science
ISBN : 9780231139847
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 of worshipping images but also a consequence of bad reading. Hobbes speaks of the "error of separated essences," in which a sign takes precedence over the idea or object it represents, and warns that when the sign is given such agency, it becomes a disembodied fantasy leading to a "kingdom of darkness." To combat such idolatry, Hobbes offers a method of reading in which one resists the rhetorical manipulation of figures and tropes and recognizes the codes and structures of language for what they are-the only way to convey a fundamental inability to ever know "the thing itself." Making the leap to politics, Martel suggests that following Hobbes's argument, the sovereign can also be seen as idolatrous--a separated essence--a figure who supplants the people it purportedly represents, and that learning to be better readers enables us to challenge, if not defeat, the authority of the sovereign.
Author : Susanne Sreedhar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 21,33 MB
Release : 2010-09-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1139488309
Hobbes's political theory has traditionally been taken to be an endorsement of state power and a prescription for unconditional obedience to the sovereign's will. In this book, Susanne Sreedhar develops a novel interpretation of Hobbes's theory of political obligation and explores important cases where Hobbes claims that subjects have a right to disobey and resist state power, even when their lives are not directly threatened. Drawing attention to this broader set of rights, her comprehensive analysis of Hobbes's account of political disobedience reveals a unified and coherent theory of resistance that has previously gone unnoticed and undefended. Her book will appeal to all who are interested in the nature and limits of political authority, the right of self-defense, the right of revolution, and the modern origins of these issues.
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Publisher :
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 12,46 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Transportation, Automotive
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Author : David Van Mill
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 47,39 MB
Release : 2001-07-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780791450369
A new interpretation of the theory of Hobbes.
Author : Sean Fleming
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 21,76 MB
Release : 2020-11-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0691206465
The first suggests that states can be held responsible because they are 'moral agents' like human beings, with similar capacities for deliberation and intentional action. A state is responsible in the same way in which an indivdiual is responsible. The second sthat states can be held responsible because they are legal persons that act vicariously through their officials; states are 'principals' rather than agents, and the model for state responsibility is a case of vicariously liability, such as when an employer is held financially liable for the actions of her employee. Sam Fleming reconstructs and develops a forgotten understanding of state responsibility from Thomas Hobbes' political thought. Like proponents of the two theories of state responsibility, Hobbes considered states to be 'persons', meaning that actions, rights, and responsibilities can be attributed to them. States can be said to wage war, possess sovereignty, and owe money.
Author : Zarka Yves Charles Zarka
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 12,41 MB
Release : 2016-07-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1474401201
Yves Charles Zarka shows you how Hobbes established the framework for modern political thought. Discover the origin of liberalism in the Hobbesian theory of negative liberty; that Hobbesian interest and contract are essential to contemporary discussions of the comportment of economic actors; and how state sovereignty returns anew in the form of the servility of the state. At the same time, Zarka controversially argues against received readings claiming that Hobbes is a thinker of a state monopoly on legitimate violence.
Author : Mary G. Dietz
Publisher :
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 47,46 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Philosophy
ISBN :
The eight essays in this volume celebrated the 400th birthday of the English political thinker - Thomas Hobbes.
Author : David P. Gauthier
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 16,21 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198243359
Oxford Scholarly Classics brings together a number of great academic works from the archives of Oxford University Press. Reissued in a uniform series design, they will enable libraries, scholars, and students to gain fresh access to some of the finest scholarship of the last century.