The Platonian Leviathan

Thomas Hobbes's influential political treatise, Leviathan, was first published in 1651. Many scholars have since credited him...
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Author: Leon Harold Craig
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The Platonian Leviathan by Craig, Leon Harold

The Platonian Leviathan

$946.31

The Platonian Leviathan

$946.31
Author: Leon Harold Craig
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Thomas Hobbes's influential political treatise, Leviathan, was first published in 1651. Many scholars have since credited him with a mechanistic outlook towards human nature that established the basis of modern Western political philosophy from the perspective of social contract theory. In The Platonian Leviathan, Leon Harold Craig weaves together philosophy, political science, and literature to offer a radical re-interpretation of Hobbes's most famous work.

Though Craig begins and concludes his analysis with discussions of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick and includes an essay on Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, the bulk of his two-part commentary centres on Leviathan. Part One shows the overt principles of Hobbes's political prescription to be untenable, and strongly suggests that Hobbes himself did not subscribe to these rules, using them only as tools to further his philosophical goals. In Part Two, Craig displays the underlying Platonism of Hobbes's thinking. Sure to be controversial, The Platonian Leviathan may nonetheless re-orient the future direction of Hobbes scholarship.



Author: Leon Harold Craig
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 04/08/2013
Pages: 716
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.10lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.60d
ISBN: 9781442616004

About the Author
Craig, Leon Harold: - Leon Harold Craig is a professor emeritus in the Department of Political Science at the University of Alberta.

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