Interpreting Hobbes's Political Philosophy
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Interpreting Hobbes's Political Philosophy

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Interpreting Hobbes's Political Philosophy

About this book

The essays in this volume provide a state-of-the-art overview of the central elements of Hobbes's political philosophy and the ways in which they can be interpreted. The volume's contributors offer their own interpretations of Hobbes's philosophical method, his materialism, his psychological theory and moral theory, and his views on benevolence, law and civil liberties, religion, and women. Hobbes's ideas of authorization and representation, his use of the 'state of nature', and his reply to the unjust 'Foole' are also critically analyzed. The essays will help readers to orient themselves in the complex scholarly literature while also offering groundbreaking arguments and innovative interpretations. The volume as a whole will facilitate new insights into Hobbes's political theory, enabling readers to consider key elements of his thought from multiple perspectives and to select and combine them to form their own interpretations of his political philosophy.

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Information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2019
Print ISBN
9781108415613
eBook ISBN
9781108246521
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Modern Philosophy

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title page
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright page
  5. Contents
  6. List of Contributors
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction
  9. Chapter 1 Methodologies of Interpreting Hobbes: Historical and Philosophical
  10. Chapter 2 Hobbes’s Political-Philosophical Project: Science and Subversion
  11. Chapter 3 Hobbes’s Philosophical Method and the Passion of Curiosity
  12. Chapter 4 Hobbes, Life, and the Politics of Self-Preservation: The Role of Materialism in Hobbes’s Political Philosophy
  13. Chapter 5 Human Nature and Motivation: Hamilton versus Hobbes
  14. Chapter 6 On Benevolence and Love of Others
  15. Chapter 7 Interpreting Hobbes’s Moral Theory: Rightness, Goodness, Virtue, and Responsibility
  16. Chapter 8 Interpreting Hobbes on Civil Liberties and Rights of Resistance
  17. Chapter 9 Hobbes and Christian Belief
  18. Chapter 10 Hobbes on Persons and Authorization
  19. Chapter 11 The Character and Significance of the State of Nature
  20. Chapter 12 Hobbes’s Confounding Foole
  21. Chapter 13 “Not a Woman-Hater,” “No Rapist,” or Even Inventor of “the Sensitive Male”? Feminist Interpretations of Hobbes’s Political Theory and Their Relevance for Hobbes Studies
  22. Chapter 14 The Productivity of Misreading: Interpreting Hobbes in a Hobbesian Contractarian Perspective
  23. Bibliography
  24. Index