Descrição
The Oxford Handbook of Hobbes consists of twenty-six original chapters by a group of distinguished philosophers, political theorists, historians, and literary scholars from North America and Europe.
All the contributors have made substantial contributions to Hobbes scholarship, some over the course of decades. The book is divided into five parts: Logic and Natural Philosophy; Human Nature and Moral Philosophy; Political Philosophy; Religion; and History, Poetry, and Paradox.
The goal of each chapter is to advance the understanding of Hobbes’s thought. The discussion in many of the chapters overlaps with discussions in others, and these overlapping discussions provide multiple perspectives on the topic. Because the authors come from several different traditions and have divergent interpretations of Hobbes, the varied perspectives help to illuminate Hobbes’s thought even when they are at odds.
Several of the articles interrogate Hobbes’s texts with completely new questions, and others bring to the fore topics that have not been known or appropriately appreciated.