Chapter on “Hobbes and Pretenders to God’s Kingdom” in the new book: Apocalypse without God
The goal of this Hobbes chapter in Jones’s book is to show how Hobbes reinterprets the doctrine of the kingdom of God to make it safe for politics.
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New Book: Hobbes Against Friendship: The Modern Marginalisation of an Ancient Political Concept
This new book by Gabriella Slomp explores why and how Thomas Hobbes contributed to the modern marginalisation of ‘friendship’ – a concept that stood in the foreground of ancient moral and political thought and that is currently undergoing a revival.
New article: Hobbes, Constant, and Berlin on Liberty
A new article by Alan Cromartie on Hobbes, Constant, and Berlin on Liberty.
New Hobbes Studies Special Issue dedicated to the career and work of Professor Johann Sommerville
A new special issue of Hobbes Studies is available – including articles by Johann Sommerville, Cesare Cuttica, Xinzhi Zhao, Ioannis Evrigenis, Sharon Lloyd, Mary Nyquist and book reviews by Luca Iori and Victor Lenthe.
Workshop on vice, sin, and sociability in early modern moral and political philosophy
The workshop will take place 11-12 April 2022 at the University of Jyväskylä (Finland). The talks will be broadcast online for those unable to attend in person.
New article: A Bridge between Art and Philosophy: The Case of Thomas Hobbes
This article by Quentin Skinner offers an interpretation of the frontispieces Hobbes included in his two main works of political philosophy, De cive and Leviathan.
New article on Hobbes’ Biological Rhetoric and the Covenant
This article follows the hypothesis that resolving the dilemma presented in Victoria Kahn’s interpretation of Hobbes requires a shift in attention from mimesis to rhetoric and, more specifically, to biological rhetoric as defined by Nancy Struever.
New article on Hobbes and authoritarian leadership
This article shows how Thomas Hobbes, the influential theoretical founder of the modern state, can account for the modern “manual” of authoritarian leadership, with its distinctive use of rule of law and constitutions, voting and elections, and a free marketplace as means to enhance power and consolidate rule.
New Chapter: Hobbes and Rousseau on Human Nature and the State of Nature
New chapter by Ioannis Evrigenis on Hobbes and Rousseau on Human Nature and State of Nature
New article on Hobbes’s Eschatology and Scriptural Interpretation in Leviathan
This article closely analyses Hobbes’s scriptural case for two aspects of eschatology: the doctrine of mortalism and the terrestrial kingdom of God.
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