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Author : Christopher Scott McClure
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107153790
An original analysis of Hobbes' political and religious thought, arguing that apparent inconsistencies in his work were a rhetorical strategy.
Author : Christopher Holman
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781438490441
At a time when nearly all political actors and observers—despite the nature of their normative commitments—morally appeal to the language of democracy, the particular signification of the term has become obscured. Hobbes and the Democratic Imaginary argues that critical engagement with various elements of the work of Hobbes, a notorious critic of democracy, can deepen our understanding of the problems, stakes, and ethics of democratic life. Firstly, Hobbes's descriptive anatomy of democratic sovereignty reveals what is essential to the institution of this form of government, in the face of the conceptual confusion that characterizes the contemporary deployment of democratic terminology. Secondly, Hobbes's critique of the mechanics of democracy points toward certain fundamental political risks that are internal to its mode of operation. And thirdly, contrary to Hobbes's own intentions, Christopher Holman shows how the selective redeployment of certain Hobbesian categories could help construct a normative ground in which democracy is the ethical choice in relation to other sovereign forms.
Author : Travis DeCook
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108830812
Explores the cultural functions played in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries by accounts of the Bible's origins.
Author : S. A. Lloyd
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781108246521
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.
Author : Joanne Paul
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108490177
The first comprehensive study of early modern English political counsel and its association with the discourse of sovereignty.
Author : John Robertson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781009289368
Explores the multiple ways in which different conceptions of time and history have been used to understand politics since late antiquity, showing that no conception of politics has dispensed altogether with time, and many have explicitly sought legitimacy in association with forms of history.
Author : Thomas Nys,Stephen de Wijze
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 928 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317394402
Why ought we concern ourselves with understanding a concept of evil? It is an elusive and politically charged concept which critics argue has no explanatory power and is a relic of a superstitious and primitive religious past. Yet its widespread use persists today: we find it invoked by politicians, judges, journalists, and many others to express the view that certain actions, persons, institutions, or ideologies are not just morally problematic but require a special signifier to mark them out from the ordinary and commonplace. Therefore, the question of what a concept of evil could mean and how it fits into our moral vocabulary remains an important and pressing concern. The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Evil provides an outstanding overview and exploration of these issues and more, bringing together an international team of scholars working on the concept of evil. Its 27 chapters cover the crucial discussions and arguments, both historical and contemporary, that are needed to properly understand the historical development and complexity of the concept of evil. The Handbook is divided into three parts: Historical explorations of evil Recent secular explorations of evil Evil and other issues. The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Evil is essential reading for students and researchers in the fields of ethics and philosophy of psychology. It also provides important insights and background for anyone exploring the concept of evil in related subjects such as literature, politics, and religion.
Author : Ben Jones
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781316517055
Explains why apocalyptic thought, despite often being dismissed as bizarre, has persistent appeal in political life.
Author : Horst Bredekamp
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783110681413
Horst Bredekamp’s subject is the astute deployment and perennial resonance of the startling image of the body politic that dominates the frontispiece to Leviathan: a treatise on the psychology of the individual and the dynamic of the multitude, published in 1651 by the English philosopher Thomas Hobbes. Affirming the centrality of such a figural device for this pioneering theorist of the state, Bredekamp goes on to address the art-historical dimension of the mesmerising etched title-page. In his central chapters he explores the extraordinary range of sources – from socio-cultural tradition to scientific advances – on which the author and his artist-collaborator may have drawn. In conclusion, he reveals Hobbes to be no less passionate than shrewd in his belief that the constraints and amenities of a tolerable life in common attest to the potency of the visual. As appendices, two essays and catalogues explore the portraits made of Hobbes as well as illustrations that appeared in his other works, thus systematically completing the exploration of the images connected with this exceptional philosopher.
Author : Alin Fumurescu
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107029439
This book offers a conceptual history of compromise demonstrating the connection between understandings of compromise and understandings of political representation.
Author : Antonio Cerella
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350079458
What is political modernity? And how much of its concepts and structures has changed or remained the same with the advent of the so-called globalization? What does it mean, from a political perspective, that we live in a postmodern era? This book discusses these issues in light of the key authors and texts of the continental philosophical tradition: from Carl Schmitt to Giorgio Agamben, from Thomas Hobbes to Michel Foucault. Looking at the roots of the current historical crisis that characterizes Western political regimes, this book gazes into the past in order to trace the possible development of our current global era, in which all the classical concepts and our symbolic resources seem to be called into question, leaving a vacuum of meaning for political action as much as for political theory.
Author : Theodore Christov
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107114531
Against the twentieth-century 'Hobbesian anarchy', Before Anarchy reconsiders the originality and reception of Hobbes's interpersonal and international state of nature.
Author : Robin E. R. Bunce,R.E.R. Bunce
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009-05-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780826429797
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Author : David Weinstein,Avihu Zakai
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107166462
A study of how forced exile from 1930s Germany informed the scholarship of four German-speaking, Jewish intellectuals.
Author : William Bain
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780192603722
Is contemporary international order truly a secular arrangement? Theorists of international relations typically adhere to a narrative that portrays the modern states system as the product of a gradual process of secularization that transcended the religiosity of medieval Christendom. William Bain challenges this narrative by arguing that modern theories of international order reflect ideas that originate in medieval theology. They are, in other words, worldly applications of a theological pattern. This ground-breaking book makes two key contributions to scholarship on international order. First, it provides a thorough intellectual history of medieval and early modern traditions of thought and the way in which they shape modern thinking about international order. It explores the ideas of Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, William of Ockham, Martin Luther, and other theologians to rise above the sharp differentiation of medieval and modern that underpins most international thought. Uncovering this theological inheritance invites a fundamental reassessment of canonical figures, such as Hugo Grotius and Thomas Hobbes, and their contribution to theorizing international order. Second, this book shows how theological ideas continue to shape modern theories of international order by structuring the questions theorists ask as well as the answer they provide. It argues that the dominant vocabulary of international order, system and society, anarchy, balance of power, and constitutionalism, is mediated by the intellectual commitments of nominalist theology. It concludes by exploring the implications of thinking in terms of this theological inheritance, albeit in a world where God is only one of several possibilities that can called upon to secure the regularity of order.
