Hobbes and the making of modern political thought /

Hobbes and the Making of Modern Political Thought considers what it is that makes the study of Hobbes so compelling. Gordon Hull reads Hobbes as the first 'modern' political philosopher. In Hobbes we find the combination of an anomalous and anachronistic view of geometry and a radical, alm...

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Online Access:Electronic book from EBSCO
Main Author: Hull, Gordon, 1972-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:London ; New York : Continuum, ©2009.
Series:Continuum studies in British philosophy.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the politics of construction
  • A genealogical context of modern political thought
  • More geometrico
  • Nominalism redux
  • The state of nature
  • Constructing politics
  • Conclusion : from erasing nature to producing the multitude.