First Published in 1969. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Leviathan is both a magnificent literary achievement and the greatest work of political philosophy in the English language. Permanently challenging, it has found new applications and new refutations in every generation. This new edition reproduces the first printed text, retaining the original punctuation but modernizing the spelling. It offers exceptionally thorough and useful annotation, an introduction that guides the reader through the complexities of Hobbes's arguments, and a substantial index.

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Thomas Hobbes' timeless account of the human condition, first developed in The Elements of Law (1640), which comprises Human Nature and De Corpore Politico, is a direct product of the intellectual and political strife of the seventeenth century. His analysis of the war between the individual and the group lays out the essential strands of his moral and political philosophy later made famous in Leviathan. This first ever complete paperback edition of Human Nature and De Corpore Politico is also supplemented by chapters from Hobbes' later work De Corpore and "The Three Lives," never before...

"Behemoth, or The Long Parliament" is essential to any reader interested in the historical context of the thought of Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679). In "De Cive" (1642) and "Leviathan" (1651), the great political philosopher had developed an analytical framework for discussing sedition, rebellion, and the breakdown of authority. "Behemoth," completed around 1668 and not published until after Hobbe's death, represents the systematic application of this framework to the English Civil War.
In his insightful and substantial Introduction, Stephen Holmes examines the major themes and implications of...

Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan is the greatest work of political philosophy in English and the first great work of philosophy in English. In addition, it presents the fundamentals of his beliefs about language, epistemology, and an extensive treatment of revealed religion and its relation to politics. Beginning with premises that were sometimes controversial, such as that every human action is caused by the agent's desire for his own good, Hobbes derived shocking conclusions, such as that the civil government enjoys absolute control over its citizens and that the sovereign has the right to...

In Der Korper (1655), dem ersten Teil seines philosophischen Hauptwerks, entwickelt Hobbes in Anlehnung an die streng beweisende Methodik der euklidischen Geometrie sowie unter Einschluss der modernen Bewegungslehre Galileis das erste in sich geschlossene neuzeitliche System eines mechanizistischen Materialismus. Unveranderter Print-on-Demand-Nachdruck der Ausgabe von 1997."

Thomas Hobbes: Grundzuge der Philosophie Entstanden zwischen 1642 und 1658. Erstdrucke: 1. Teil - London 1655, 2. Teil - London 1658, 3. Teil - Paris 1642. In deutscher Ubersetzung durch Julius Heinrich von Kirchmann erschien zunachst nur der 3. Teil unter dem Titel Abhandlung uber den Burger, Leipzig 1873. Der Text folgt der ersten einheitlichen Ubertragung des dreiteiligen Werkes durch Max Frischeisen-Kohler von 1915/18. Der Ubersetzer gab Hobbes' eingehende mathematischen und physikalischen Ausfuhrungen in der Lehre vom Korper nicht in vollem Wortlaut wieder, sondern stellte in Anlehnung...

Thomas Hobbes: Grundzuge der Philosophie Entstanden zwischen 1642 und 1658. Erstdrucke: 1. Teil - London 1655, 2. Teil - London 1658, 3. Teil - Paris 1642. In deutscher Ubersetzung durch Julius Heinrich von Kirchmann erschien zunachst nur der 3. Teil unter dem Titel Abhandlung uber den Burger, Leipzig 1873. Der Text folgt der ersten einheitlichen Ubertragung des dreiteiligen Werkes durch Max Frischeisen-Kohler von 1915/18. Der Ubersetzer gab Hobbes' eingehende mathematischen und physikalischen Ausfuhrungen in der Lehre vom Korper nicht in vollem Wortlaut wieder, sondern stellte in Anlehnung...

Originally published in 1889, Ferdinand Tonnies published versions of two works by Thomas Hobbes. His editions of The Elements of Law: Natural and Politic and of Behemoth: or The Long Parliament were the first modern critical editions, based on manuscripts of works by Hobbes. Completed in 1640, The Elements of Law was Hobbes's first systematic political work. The book helps us see Hobbes's mind at work, for it is the first version of his later political works.