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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 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.

General, New Publications

New Article on Hobbesian causation and personal identity in the history of criminology

September 14, 2020

In this article, Luke William Hunt argues that the metaphysical underpinnings of Hobbes's project downplay the notion of a purely individualistic conception of the self, pointing to a positivist theory of criminology relying upon external forces.

General, Member Publications, New Publications

New Article: Gassendi and Hobbes in Dialogue on Psychology, Ethics, and Politics

September 10, 2020

Gianni Paganini explores the complex interplay between Gassendi and Hobbes, especially with regards to psychology, the foundations of ethics, legal theory, and political philosophy, stressing the important role that ancient Epicureanism and seventeenth-century Neo-Epicureanism played in the birth of a modern theory of individual rights.