Autorentext
S. A. Lloyd is the author of Ideals as Interests in Hobbes's Leviathan (Cambridge, 1992), and Morality in the Philosophy of Thomas Hobbes (Cambridge, 2009), and editor of The Bloomsbury Companion to Hobbes (2012), Hobbes Today (Cambridge, 2013), and Interpreting Hobbes's Political Philosophy (Cambridge, 2019).

Klappentext

The seventeenth-century English philosopher Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan or the Matter, Forme and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil, commonly known as Leviathan, has fascinated, alarmed, and challenged readers ever since its publication in 1651. Both a modernization of natural law theory and an early and influential contribution to social contract theory, Leviathan offers a powerful, systematic theory of the rights and duties of sovereigns and subjects, governors and citizens. This Critical Guide provides scholars, students, and anyone curious about Hobbes's political theory access to the latest research into Hobbes's views of philosophical method, human psychology, morality, law, liberty, governance, power relations, obligation, agency and responsibility, the requisites of social stability, pride, honor, theism, and organized religion. In fourteen original essays by many of today's leading Hobbes scholars, the volume provides overviews and in-depth investigations into those aspects of Hobbes's thinking in Leviathan that are of greatest interest today.

Inhalt

Introduction S. A. Lloyd; 1. Leviathan and British politics Alan Cromartie; 2. Leviathan's new political chapters Deborah Baumgold; 3. Interpreting leviathan: text and context A. P. Martinich; 4. Hobbes's principles of motion in leviathan: imagination and curiosity Marcus P. Adams; 5. Human motivation in leviathan: internalism and the prospects for agreement Michael LeBuffe; 6. The misery of anarchy: leviathan's state of nature Ioannis D. Evrigenis; 7. Leviathan's authorization antinomy S. A. Lloyd; 8. Justice, gratitude and trust in leviathan Johan Olsthoorn; 9. Virtue and the duty to obey the law David Dyzenhaus; 10. Liberty versus authority: the disruptive role of subjects' rights in leviathan Eleanor Curran; 11. Hobbes's dual morality? On the puzzling role of honor in Hobbes's political Philosophy Eva Odzuck; 12. Deference and dominion: women and power relations in Hobbes's leviathan Sandra Leone Field; 13. God in leviathan Jeffrey Collins; 14. 'All the maddest divinity': religion in leviathan Alison McQueen; Bibliography; Index.