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.
Alexandra Chadwick and Signy Gunick Allen, PhD students at Queen Mary, University of London, are publication officers of the European Hobbes Society.
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.
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.
A new article by Alan Cromartie on Hobbes, Constant, and Berlin on Liberty.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 by Ioannis Evrigenis on Hobbes and Rousseau on Human Nature and State of Nature
This article closely analyses Hobbes’s scriptural case for two aspects of eschatology: the doctrine of mortalism and the terrestrial kingdom of God.