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According to the commonly accepted view, Thomas Hobbes began his intellectual career as a humanist, but his discovery, in midlife, of the wonders of geometry initiated a critical transition from humanism to the scientific study of politics. In Mortal Gods, Ted Miller radically revises this view, arguing that Hobbes never ceased to be a humanist. While previous scholars have made the case for Hobbes as humanist by looking to his use of rhetoric, Miller rejects the humanism/mathematics dichotomy altogether and shows us the humanist face of Hobbes's affinity for mathematical learning and practice. He thus reconnects Hobbes with the humanists who admired and cultivated mathematical learning—and with the material fruits of Great Britain's mathematical practitioners. The result is a fundamental recasting of Hobbes's project, a recontextualization of his thought within early modern humanist pedagogy and the court culture of the Stuart regimes. Mortal Gods stands as a new challenge to contemporary political theory and its settled narratives concerning politics, rationality, and violence.
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Table of contents
- COVER Front
- CIP Page
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Notes to Chapter 1
- Chapter 2: The Humanist Face of Hobbes's Mathematics, Part 1
- Notes to Chapter 2
- Chapter 3: Constraints that Enable the Imitation of God
- Notes to Chapter 3
- Chapter 4: King of the Children of Pride: The Imitation of God in Context
- Notes to Chapter 4
- Chapter 5: Architectonic Ambitions: Mathematics and the Demotion of Physics
- Notes to Chapter 5
- Chapter 6: Eloquence and the Audience Thesis
- Notes to Chapter 6
- Chapter 7: All Other Doctrines Exploded: Hobbes, History, and the Struggle Over Teaching
- Notes to Chapter 7
- Chapter 8: The Humanist Face of Hobbes's Mathematics, Part 2: LEVIATHAN and the Making of a Masque-Text
- Notes to Chapter 8
- Chapter 9: Conclusion
- Notes to Chapter 9
- Appendix: Who is a Geometer?
- Notes to Appendix
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- COVER Back