New article: ‘From many kings to a single one: Hobbesian absolutism disguised as an epic translation’
This article by Andrea Catanzaro looks at the political value of Hobbes’s translations of Homer.
Alexandra Chadwick and Signy Gunick Allen, PhD students at Queen Mary, University of London, are publication officers of the European Hobbes Society.
This article by Andrea Catanzaro looks at the political value of Hobbes’s translations of Homer.
Jared Lucky considers Hobbes’s treatment of ‘monstrous’ births.
Teresa M. Bejan’s new book on the concept of civility includes a chapter on Hobbes and ‘civil silence’.
In this article, Jonathan Sheehan asks whether Hobbes was a theologian, and considers how this question can help intellectual historians think about theology.
In this new article, Robin Douglass evaluates Hobbes’s place in the realist tradition by focusing on three key themes: the priority of legitimacy over justice, the relation between ethics and politics, and the place of imagination in politics.
The latest issue of Hobbes Studies includes research articles from Elliott Karstadt, James J. Hamilton, Marcus Schultz-Bergin and S. A. Lloyd.
This chapter in Gary Browning’s new book discusses Oakeshott’s and Foucault’s (and to a lesser extent Collingwood’s and Skinner’s) engagements with Hobbes.
In this new article, Patricia Springborg examines the sense in which Hobbes can be considered a ‘materialist’, reading him as making use of aspects of Epicureanism.
From 20-22 Sept 2016, 25 scholars, based in 10 different countries, came together in the cosy college town of Leuven, Belgium, for the first biennial conference of the European Hobbes Society.
Sophie Smith draws on early modern commentaries on Aristotle to explore Hobbes’s theory of the body politic.