Appropriating Hobbes

Author : David Boucher
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198817215

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This book explores how Hobbes's political philosophy has occupied a pertinent place in different contexts, and how his interpreters see their own images reflected in him, or how they define themselves in contrast to him. Appropriating Hobbes argues that there is no Hobbes independent of the interpretations that arise from his appropriation in these various contexts and which serve to present him to the world. There is no one perfect context that enables us to get at what Hobbes 'really meant', despite the numerous claims to the contrary. He is almost indistinguishable from the context in which he is read. This contention is justified with reference to hermeneutics, and particularly the theories of Gadamer, Koselleck, and Ricoeur, contending that through a process of 'distanciation' Hobbes's writings have been appropriated and commandeered to do service in divergent contexts such as philosophical idealism; debates over the philosophical versus historical understanding of texts; as well as in ideological disputations, and emblematic characterisations of him by various disciplines such as law, politics, and international relations. This volume illustrates the capacity of a text to take on the colouration of its surroundings by exploring and explicating the importance of contexts in reading and understanding how and why particular interpretations of Hobbes have emerged, such as those of Carl Schmitt and Michael Oakeshott, or the international jurists of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries.

Author : David Boucher
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780192549273

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This book explores how Hobbes's political philosophy has occupied a pertinent place in different contexts, and how his interpreters see their own images reflected in him, or how they define themselves in contrast to him. Appropriating Hobbes argues that there is no Hobbes independent of the interpretations that arise from his appropriation in these various contexts and which serve to present him to the world. There is no one perfect context that enables us to get at what Hobbes 'really meant', despite the numerous claims to the contrary. He is almost indistinguishable from the context in which he is read. This contention is justified with reference to hermeneutics, and particularly the theories of Gadamer, Koselleck, and Ricoeur, contending that through a process of 'distanciation' Hobbes's writings have been appropriated and commandeered to do service in divergent contexts such as philosophical idealism; debates over the philosophical versus historical understanding of texts; as well as in ideological disputations, and emblematic characterisations of him by various disciplines such as law, politics, and international relations. This volume illustrates the capacity of a text to take on the colouration of its surroundings by exploring and explicating the importance of contexts in reading and understanding how and why particular interpretations of Hobbes have emerged, such as those of Carl Schmitt and Michael Oakeshott, or the international jurists of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries.

Author : Marcus P. Adams
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781119634997

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A Companion to Hobbes by Marcus P. Adams Pdf

Offers comprehensive treatment of Thomas Hobbes’s thought, providing readers with different ways of understanding Hobbes as a systematic philosopher As one of the founders of modern political philosophy, Thomas Hobbes is best known for his ideas regarding the nature of legitimate government and the necessity of society submitting to the absolute authority of sovereign power. Yet Hobbes produced a wide range of writings, from translations of texts by Homer and Thucydides, to interpretations of Biblical books, to works devoted to geometry, optics, morality, and religion. Hobbes viewed himself as presenting a unified method for theoretical and practical science—an interconnected system of philosophy that provides many entry points into his thought. A Companion to Hobbes is an expertly curated collection of essays offering close textual engagement with the thought of Thomas Hobbes in his major works while probing his ideas regarding natural philosophy, mathematics, human nature, civil philosophy, religion, and more. The Companion discusses the ways in which scholars have tried to understand the unity and diversity of Hobbes’s philosophical system and examines the reception of the different parts of Hobbes’s philosophy by thinkers such as René Descartes, Margaret Cavendish, David Hume, and Immanuel Kant. Presenting a diversity of fresh perspectives by both emerging and established scholars, this volume: Provides a comprehensive treatment of Hobbes’s thought in his works, including Elements of Law, Elements of Philosophy, and Leviathan Explores the connecting points between Hobbes’ metaphysics, epistemology, mathematics, natural philosophy, morality, and civil philosophy Offers readers strategies for understanding how the parts of Hobbes’s philosophical system fit together Examines Hobbes’s philosophy of mathematics and his attempts to understand geometrical objects and definitions Considers Hobbes’s philosophy in contexts such as the natural state of humans, gender relations, and materialist worldviews Challenges conceptions of Hobbes’s moral theory and his views about the rights of sovereigns Part of the acclaimed Blackwell Companions to Philosophy series, A Companion to Hobbes is an invaluable resource for scholars and advanced students of Early modern thought, particularly those from disciplines such as History of Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Intellectual History, History of Politics, Political Theory, and English.

Author : Paul Downes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107085299

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Hobbes, Sovereignty, and Early American Literature by Paul Downes Pdf

Hobbes, Sovereignty and Early American Literature explores the development of ideas about sovereignty and democracy in the early United States. It looks at Puritan sermons and poetry, founding-era political debates and representations of revolutionary and anti-slavery violence to reveal how Americans imagined the elusive possibility of a democratic sovereignty.

Author : Matthew Ward
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198904120

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Thomas Hobbes and Political Thought in Ireland C.1660- C.1730 by Matthew Ward Pdf

Thomas Hobbes is now regarded as one of England's greatest political philosophers. This book considers his reception in Ireland, where, it is suggested, the 'Leviathan' was released. In doing so, the book demonstrates the variety and sophistication of political thought in Ireland.

Author : Silviya Lechner
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030306939

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Hobbesian Internationalism by Silviya Lechner Pdf

This book sets out to re-examine the foundations of Thomas Hobbes’s political philosophy, and to develop a Hobbesian normative theory of international relations. Its central thesis is that two concepts – anarchy and authority – constitute the core of Hobbes's political philosophy whose aim is to justify the state. The Hobbesian state is a type of authority (juridical, public, coercive, and supreme) which emerges under conditions of anarchy ('state of nature'). A state-of-nature argument makes a difference because it justifies authority without appeal to moral obligation. The book shows that the closest analogue of a Hobbesian authority in international relations is Kant's confederation of free states, where states enjoy 'anarchical' (equal) freedom. At present, this crucial form of freedom is being threatened by economic processes of globalisation, and by the resurgence of private authority across state borders.

Author : Cary J. Nederman,Guillaume Bogiaris
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781800373808

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Research Handbook on the History of Political Thought by Cary J. Nederman,Guillaume Bogiaris Pdf

This insightful Handbook reviews the key frameworks guiding political scientists and historians of political thought. Comprehensive in scope, it covers historical methodology, traditions, epochs, and classic authors and texts, spanning from ancient Greece until the nineteenth century.

Author : Anne Ashley Davenport
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780268101008

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Suspicious Moderate by Anne Ashley Davenport Pdf

The historiography of English Catholicism has grown enormously in the last generation, led by scholars such as Peter Lake, Michael Questier, Stefania Tutino, and others. In Suspicious Moderate, Anne Ashley Davenport makes a significant contribution to that literature by presenting a long overdue intellectual biography of the influential English Catholic theologian Francis à Sancta Clara (1598–1680). Born into a Protestant family in Coventry at the end of the sixteenth century, Sancta Clara joined the Franciscan order in 1617. He played key roles in reviving the English Franciscan province and in the efforts that were sponsored by Charles I to reunite the Church of England with Rome. In his voluminous Latin writings, he defended moderate Anglican doctrines, championed the separation of church and state, and called for state protection of freedom of conscience. Suspicious Moderate offers the first detailed analysis of Sancta Clara's works. In addition to his notorious Deus, natura, gratia (1634), Sancta Clara wrote a comprehensive defense of episcopacy (1640), a monumental treatise on ecumenical councils (1649), and a treatise on natural philosophy and miracles (1662). By carefully examining the context of Sancta Clara's ideas, Davenport argues that he aimed at educating English Roman Catholics into a depoliticized and capacious Catholicism suited to personal moral reasoning in a pluralistic world. In the course of her research, Davenport also discovered that "Philip Scot," the author of the earliest English discussions of Hobbes (a treatise published in 1650), was none other than Sancta Clara. Davenport demonstrates how Sancta Clara joined the effort to fight Hobbes's Erastianism by carefully reflecting on Hobbes's pioneering ideas and by attempting to find common ground with him, no matter how slight.

Author : Oscar Kenshur
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780520913462

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Dilemmas of Enlightenment by Oscar Kenshur Pdf

Oscar Kenshur combines trenchant analyses of important early-modern texts with a powerful critique of postmodern theories of ideology. He thereby contributes both to our understanding of Enlightenment thought and to contemporary debates about cultural studies and critical theory. While striving to resolve "dilemmas" occasioned by conflicting intellectual and political commitments, seventeenth- and eighteenth-century writers often relied upon ideas originally used by their enemies to support very different claims. Thus, they engaged in what Kenshur calls "intellectual co-optation." In exploring the ways in which Dryden, Bayle, Voltaire, Johnson, and others used this technique, Kenshur presents a historical landscape distinctly different from the one constructed by much contemporary theory.

Author : Robin E. R. Bunce,R.E.R. Bunce
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009-05-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780826429797

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Thomas Hobbes by Robin E. R. Bunce,R.E.R. Bunce Pdf

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Author : Richard E. Flathman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0742521494

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Thomas Hobbes by Richard E. Flathman Pdf

In his unconventional reading of the political philosophy of Thomas Hobbes, Flathman (political science, Johns Hopkins U.) suggests a liberal reading of Hobbes that is skeptical of ethical and metaphysical arguments that claim to know God or God's moral requirements. This leads to a view that the preferred political order is one in which disagreement and disturbance are to be privileged over an imposed homogeneity or uniformity. The foregoing suggests that we cannot do well without government, but we should chasten our expectations for government to provide the conditions necessary for the pursuit of our individual happiness. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : A P Martinich
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1996-11-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781349251858

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Thomas Hobbes by A P Martinich Pdf

The influence and reputation of Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679), the greatest English political theorist and one of the greatest of all intellectuals, has never been higher than it is now. This book gives a comprehensive treatment of Hobbes' thought in the light of the most important research currently being produced by historians, philosophers, and political scientists. His life and political, religious and scientific views are explained within the cultural context of Stuart England.

Author : S. A. Lloyd
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781108415613

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Interpreting Hobbes's Political Philosophy by S. A. Lloyd Pdf

Details the current state of scholarly debate on crucial elements of Hobbesian political philosophy and presents innovative and original arguments.

Author : Deborah Baumgold
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1988-08-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521341256

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Hobbes's Political Theory by Deborah Baumgold Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 792 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Political science
ISBN : OSU:32435059117705

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History of Political Thought by Anonim Pdf