New book: Hobbes and Galileo. Method, Matter and the Science of Motion, by Gregorio Baldin
This book, translated from Italian, discusses the influence of Galileo on Hobbes’ natural philosophy.
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New Hobbes Studies Special Issue: “Feminist Perspectives on Hobbes”
Hobbes Studies Special Issue “Feminist Perspectives on Hobbes” (33-1/2020), guest-edited by Eva Odzuck and Alexandra Chadwick, contains articles by S.A. Lloyd, Gianni Paganini and Susanne Sreedhar.
New book: Leviathan – Thomas Hobbes, his embodied state, its contexts and sources, by Horst Bredekamp
Bredekamp’s book on Hobbes’s political iconography, originally written in German, translated by Elizabeth Clegg, available in English now!
New book: La croisée des savoirs. Hobbes, Mersenne, Descartes, by Gregorio Baldin
This book analyzes the philosophical and scientific debates which took place in Paris during Hobbes’ stay, and which proved to be decisive for the birth of Hobbes’ philosophy.
New book: In the Shadow of Leviathan, by Jeffrey R. Collins
This book narrates the intertwined careers of Hobbes and Locke during the Restoration period, when the two men found themselves in close proximity and entangled in many of the same political conflicts.
New article: ‘On the Absence of Moral Goodness in Hobbes’s Ethics’ by Johan Olsthoorn
This article reassesses Hobbes’s place in the history of ethics based on an analysis of his various classifications of formal goodness.
New article: ‘Equity and Political Economy in Thomas Hobbes’ by Lee Ward
The article challenges the interpretation of Hobbes as an antecedent to free market ideology by arguing that his political economy presupposed a complex relation between contract, law, and social networks of credit informed by prudence and robust norms of equity.
New article, ‘Hobbes and the Politics of Translation’, by Alicia Steinmetz
This essay argues that Hobbes’s work as a translator was fundamental to his mature political philosophy.
New article stressing intolerance in Hobbes
Kabala argues that today’s case for a religiously tolerant Hobbes has missed an important part of the historical record, the second edition of the Humble Proposals. Taking this document into account leads him to the conclusion that Hobbes’s endorsement of Independency alone cannot be used to argue that his work leads to religious toleration.
New article on the eternity of the law of nature in Hobbes
Robert A. Greene finds that Hobbes is one of the first writers in English to assert the eternity of the law of nature by invoking the biblical-based expression, verbum aeternum. He subsequently tries to understand why Hobbes’s use of the concept of eternity blurs throughout Leviathan.
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