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The European Hobbes Society
The European Hobbes Society is an international and interdisciplinary research network, which aims to promote scholarship on the thought of Thomas Hobbes by providing a platform for scholars from across the world to share ideas and exchange research.

New article on Hobbesian Laughter in Theory and Practice

October 15, 2020

Drawing on evidence from across Hobbes’s works, and in particular from an understudied discussion of “Vespasian’s law” in the Six Lessons, Zachariah Black argues that Hobbes models the discrete use of humorous rhetoric in defense of peace.

General, New Publications

New article on Hobbes's Politics of Monstrosity

October 1, 2020

This article argues that Hobbes creatively utilizes the monster genre’s mythic spatiality, linear trajectory, and subject positions—monster, victim, and hero—to compellingly present a fundamental problem plaguing humanity (wolfishness), as well as his political-theoretical solution (Leviathan).

General, New Publications

New piece on Hobbes: "Leviathan against the city"

September 15, 2020

In this article, J.M. Hoye argues that Hobbes's theory of the state in Leviathan amounts to an assault on the practices of urban republican politics. Triangulating the theory of the state in Leviathan using European ideological, local historical and textual coordinates, Hoye opens new insights into Hobbes's understanding of democracy, republicanism, popular sovereignty and the state.