Book manuscript workshop Hobbes on Justice
The workshop will take place over two days, from 6 to 7 December 2022, at the University of Amsterdam. Registration is free but required. For additional details and other information, click the link above.
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New article: The Name ‘Leviathan’ – or the Shadow that Fell on a Work
This new article by Lothar Waas examines Hobbes’s naming of Leviathan. It argues that the real key to Hobbes’s naming may lie with Jean Bodin, with whom Hobbes shares everything that the name ‘Leviathan’ stands for in his political philosophy.
The first Italian translation of Hobbes’s Autobiographies
This new book, edited by Luca Tenneriello, collects the first Italian translations of Hobbes’s two Latin autobiographies: Vita Carmine Expressa, written in 1672, and Vita, from the 1660s.
Colloquium: 380 years of De Cive
The colloquium, hosted by Instituto de investigaciones Gino Germani (Buenos Aires, Argentina), is scheduled for three days, from October 4 to October 6. Attendees may participate in person or online. To see the full event flyer and schedule click the link above.
New article: Taylor and Hobbes on toleration
This article argues that Hobbes’s and Taylor’s views of toleration have various features in common, and that these features are rarely found in their celebrated predecessor William Chillingworth or in major Puritan tolerationists.
New article on Equity and Inequity in Thomas Hobbes’s Dialogue
Equity in the Dialogue is not always the same as what we see in Hobbes’s core works. The question is, did Hobbes change his mind on equity? This article by Thomas Corbin argues no. Hobbes did not change his mind on equity; rather, within the Dialogue he is engaging with a common understanding of the term as it existed in English law.
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.
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.
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