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Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes


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The life of man, solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short’ Written during the chaos of the English Civil War, Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan asks how, in a world of violence and horror, can we stop ourselves from descending into anarchy? Hobbes’ case for a ‘common-wealth’ under a powerful sovereign – or ‘Leviathan’ – to enforce security…

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The life of man, solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short’ Written during the chaos of the English Civil War, Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan asks how, in a world of violence and horror, can we stop ourselves from descending into anarchy? Hobbes’ case for a ‘common-wealth’ under a powerful sovereign – or ‘Leviathan’ – to enforce security and the rule of law, shocked his contemporaries, and his book was publicly burnt for sedition the moment it was published. But his penetrating work of political philosophy opened up questions about the nature of statecraft and society that influenced governments across the world.

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Weight0.57 kg
Title

Leviathan

Publisher

Penguin Books Ltd

Author

Thomas Hobbes

Book binding

Paperback

Release date

27 Jul 2017

Pages

688

Condition

New

ISBN/EAN        9780141395098
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