Hobbes and Modern Political Thought

ISBN-13: 9781474433464 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 278 str.

James Griffith; Yves Charles Zarka; James Griffith

Opis

Discover how Hobbes established the framework for modern political thought: liberalism originates in the Hobbesian theory of negative liberty; Hobbesian interest and contract are essential to contemporary discussions of the comportment of economic actors; and state sovereignty returns anew in the servility of the state.

Spis treści

Translator’s Introduction

Foreword

1. Journey: To the Foundations of Modern Politics

Part I. Individual and State

2. Gracián’s Hero and Hobbes’s Antihero

3. The Hobbesian Idea of Political Philosophy

Part II. Language and Power

4. Theory of Language

5. The Semiology of Power

Part III. Fundamental Concepts of Politics

6. On War

7. On Law

8. On Property

9. On the State

10. On the Right to Punish

Part IV. Hobbes According to Two Contemporaries

11. Hobbes and Filmer: Regnum Patrimoniale and Regnum Institutivum

12. Hobbes and Pascal: Two Models of the Theory of Power

Conclusion: Hobbes’s Contribution

Bibliography