Behemoth, or, The Long Parliament
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Behemoth, or, The Long Parliament
（The Clarendon edition of the works of Thomas Hobbes, v. 10）
Clarendon Press, 2010
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Behemoth
Long Parliament
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Behemoth is Thomas Hobbes's narrative of the English Civil Wars from the beginning of the Scottish revolution in 1637 to the Restoration of the Monarchy in 1660, and is his only composition to address directly the history of the events which formed the context of his writings in Leviathan and elsewhere on sovereignty and the government of the Church. Although presented as an account of past events, it conceals a vigorous attack on the values of the
religious and political establishment of Restoration England. This is the first fully scholarly edition of the work, and the first new edition of the text since 1889. Based on Hobbes's own presentation manuscript, it includes for the first time an accurate transcription of the passages which Hobbes had deleted in
the text, and notes made by early readers.
Table of Contents
- List of Abbreviations
- List of Illustrations
- General Introduction
- Textual Introduction
- 1. To the Right Honourable Sr. Henry Bennet Baron of Arlington
- 2. First Dialogue
- 3. Second Dialogue
- 4. Third Dialogue
- 5. Fourth Dialogue
- Register of variants
- Appendix: Readers' notes in early copies of Behemoth
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