Online Colloquium (2): Korab-Karpowicz on Hobbesian Internationalism
W. Julian Korab-Karpowicz comments on Hobbesian Internationalism, in the second entry to this online colloquium.
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Online Colloquium (1): Introduction to Hobbesian Internationalism
Silviya Lechner introduces her recent book, Hobbesian Internationalism, to begin this online colloquium.
New article: ‘Hobbes’s genealogy of private conscience’, by Guido Frilli
In this new article, Guido Frilli reconstructs Hobbes’s critique of the language of private conscience and shows how it subverts the traditional moral-theological notion of private judgement.
New article: ‘Il concetto di status naturae tra Hobbes e Kant’, by Gianluca Sadun Bordoni
In this new article, Gianluca Sadun Bordoni explores Kant’s engagement with Hobbes’s conception of the state of nature and shows how Kant radicalises the idea by adding an ‘ethical’ state of nature to Hobbes’s ‘juridical’ conception.
New article: ‘Real Unity and Representation in Hobbes, Schmitt, and Barth’, by Sarita Zaffini
In this new article, Sarita Zaffini argues that Hobbes invoked a theological notion of representation alongside the more familiar idea of legal authorization. The article draws on Karl Barth to explain this form of representation, while supporting Carl Schmitt’s view of the continued significance of theological representation for modern politics.
Symposium on Hobbes’s Kingdom of Light, by Devin Stauffer
The latest issue of The Review of Politics includes a symposium on Devin Stauffer’s Hobbes’s Kingdom of Light, with contributions by Paul T. Wilford, Geoffrey M. Vaughan, Paul Franco, Ioannis D. Evrigenis, Bryan Garsten, and a response by Stauffer.
New book: Hobbes’s On the Citizen: A Critical Guide, edited by Douglass & Olsthoorn
This new volume – based on the second biennial conference of the EHS – comprises twelve original essays, written by leading Hobbes scholars, which aim to show that On the Citizen is a valuable and distinctive philosophical work in its own right, and not merely a stepping-stone towards the more famous Leviathan.
New article: ‘From soul to mind in Hobbes’s The Elements of Law’, by Alexandra Chadwick
In this new article, Alexandra Chadwick examines the significance and originality of Hobbes’s use of ‘mind’, rather than ‘soul’, by comparing his analysis of human nature to widely read English-language accounts of the ‘faculties of the soul’ from the first half of the seventeenth century.
New book: Hobbesian Internationalism, by Silviya Lechner
In this new book, Silviya Lechner reexamines the foundations of Thomas Hobbes’s political philosophy to develop a Hobbesian normative theory of international relations.
New article: ‘Can power be self‐legitimating? Political realism in Hobbes, Weber, and Williams’, by Cozzaglio & Greene
In this new article, Ilaria Cozzaglio and Amanda Greene examine Bernard Williams’s criticisms of the accounts of realist legitimacy found in Hobbes and Weber.
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