Thomas Hobbes: Behemoth

ISBN-13: 9780198248712 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 448 str.

Paul Seaward

Opis

'Behemoth' is a history of the English Civil Wars and Interregnum (1640-60) written by one of England's most famous philosophers, Thomas Hobbes. It covers the events which were the background to his major philosophical writings, especially 'Leviathan', and is the only work in which where he discusses them directly.

Recenzje

Paul Seaward has produced a major piece of scholarship ... to those who have been captivated by this multi-faceted book for a long time, it comes as a blessing.

O autorze

Paul Seaward is Director of the History of Parliament. He has written on politics in Restoration England, on Clarendon and his History, and on Parliament from the seventeenth century to the twentieth. His publications include The Cavalier Parliament and the Reconstruction of the Old Regime, 1661-67. He is general editor (with Martin Dzelzainis) of the Oxford edition of the works of Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon.