Hobbes and the making of modern political thought

著者

• Hull, Gordon

書誌事項

Hobbes and the making of modern political thought

Gordon Hull

（Continuum studies in British philosophy）

Continuum, c2009

• : hb
• : pb

注記

Includes bibliographical reference (p. [182]-196) and index

内容説明・目次

巻冊次

: hb ISBN 9781441140029

内容説明

Hobbes and the Making of Modern Political Thought considers what it is that makes the study of Hobbes so compelling. Gordon Hull reads Hobbes as the first 'modern' political philosopher. In Hobbes we find the combination of an anomalous and anachronistic view of geometry and a radical, almost post-modern understanding of language. After situation Hobbes against the late scholastic and Machiavellian traditions against which he wrote, the book studies Hobbes's neglected writings on mathematics and language. That analysis then motivates a rereading of his famous pronouncements about the state of nature and the absolutist state that is supposed to be its remedy. The book concludes by showing the relevance of Hobbes to contemporary debates around the radically democratic potential of the 'multitude'. Hobbesian thought is the opposition point in these debates; what emerges here is that Hobbes is very much still with us. As a theorist who is interested in managing and channelling the productive energies of the population, Hobbes emerges as the first theorist of what we now call biopolitics.

目次

• 1. Introduction. 2. The Hobbesian Moment
• 3. History by Example: Machiavelli's Subversive Phronesis
• 4. More Geometrico
• 5. Nominalism Redux
• 6. The State of Nature
• 7. Constructing Politics
• 8. Conclusion: From Erasing Nature to Constructing the Multitude
• Bibliography
• Index.

巻冊次

: pb ISBN 9781441157744

内容説明

Hobbes and the Making of Modern Political Thought considers what it is that makes the study of Hobbes so compelling. Gordon Hull reads Hobbes as the first 'modern' political philosopher. In Hobbes we find the combination of an anomalous and anachronistic view of geometry and a radical, almost post-modern understanding of language. After situation Hobbes against the late scholastic and Machiavellian traditions against which he wrote, the book studies Hobbes's neglected writings on mathematics and language. That analysis then motivates a rereading of his famous pronouncements about the state of nature and the absolutist state that is supposed to be its remedy. The book concludes by showing the relevance of Hobbes to contemporary debates around the radically democratic potential of the 'multitude'. Hobbesian thought is the opposition point in these debates; what emerges here is that Hobbes is very much still with us. As a theorist who is interested in managing and channelling the productive energies of the population, Hobbes emerges as the first theorist of what we now call biopolitics.

目次

• 1. Introduction
• 2. The Hobbesian Moment
• 3. History by Example: Machiavelli's Subversive Phronesis
• 4. More Geometrico
• 5. Nominalism Redux
• 6. The State of Nature
• 7. Constructing Politics
• 8. Conclusion: From Erasing Nature to Constructing the Multitude
• Bibliography
• Index.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BB01737585
• ISBN:
  • 9781441140029
  • 9781441157744
• LCCN: 2009007849
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: London
• ページ数/冊数: x, 206 p.
• 大きさ: 24 cm
• 件名:
  • FREE : Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679
• 親書誌ID:
  • BA71118649