The Oxford Handbook of Hobbes 1st Edition

Description

• Author(s)
  A.P. Martinich; Kinch Hoekstra
• Publisher
  Oxford University Press
• Format
  PDF
• Print ISBN
  9780199791941, 0199791945
• eText ISBN
  9780199791941, 0199791945
• Edition
  1st
• Copyright
• Details
  The Oxford Handbook of Hobbes collects twenty-six newly commissioned, original chapters on the philosophy of the English thinker Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679). Best known today for his important influence on political philosophy, Hobbes was in fact a wide and deep thinker on a diverse range of issues. The chapters included in this Oxford Handbook cover the full range of Hobbes’s thought–his philosophy of logic and language; his view of physics and scientific method; his ethics, political philosophy, and philosophy of law; and his views of religion, history, and literature. Several of the chapters overlap in fruitful ways, so that the reader can see the richness and depth of Hobbes’s thought from a variety of perspectives.

  The contributors are experts on Hobbes from many countries, whose home disciplines include philosophy, political science, history, and literature. A substantial introduction places Hobbes’s work, and contemporary scholarship on Hobbes, in a broad context.