Hobbes on Politics and Religion

ISBN-13: 9780198803409 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 320 str.

Laurens Van Apeldoorn; Robin Douglass

Opis

Thomas Hobbes is one of the most important figures in the history of political philosophy. Yet a great deal of his political thought was motivated by the need to address distinctively religious problems. This is the first collection of essays dedicated to the complex and rich intersections between Hobbes's political and religious thought.

Recenzje

It is refreshing to read fifteen erudite articles written by seasoned experts and promising young scholars who engage the wide-ranging question of the intersection of religion and politics in Hobbes's works. The free standing arguments are not framed by Hobbes's alleged religious (in)sincerity, or by a priori conceptions of natural law, or some modernization thesis. This work is therefore a must-read for scholars yearning to explore Hobbes's religious politics in new ways. Monicka Tutschka, Journal of the History of Philosophy

O autorze

Laurens van Apeldoorn is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and a member of the Centre for Political Philosophy at Leiden University, the Netherlands. He has held visiting appointments at the University of Toronto, the University of Montreal, King's College London, and the University of Leuven. His research has appeared in journals including Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, History of European Ideas, and Hobbes Studies. Robin Douglass is Senior Lecturer in Political Theory in the Department of Political Economy, King's College London. Before arriving at King's, he studied at the Universities of York and Exeter. His research focuses on seventeenth- and eighteenth- century political philosophy. He is the author of Rousseau and Hobbes: Nature, Free Will, and the Passions (2015) and has recently published articles in journals including the American Journal of Political Science, History of Political Thought, European Journal of Political Theory, and The Review of Politics.