Author Archive for: Publication Officer

About Publication Officer

Alexandra Chadwick and Signy Gunick Allen, PhD students at Queen Mary, University of London, are publication officers of the European Hobbes Society.

Entries by Publication Officer

Book: Hobbes on Legal Authority and Political Obligation (Luciano Venezia)

September 3, 2015 in Member Publications, New Publications /by Publication Officer

This new book by Luciano Venezia challenges the orthodox interpretation of Hobbes’s account of political obligation, and develops an alternative interpretation: the directives issued by the sovereign introduce authoritative requirements, so that the subjects are morally obligated to obey them.

Book: Rousseau and Hobbes: Nature, Free Will, and the Passions

August 5, 2015 in Member Publications, New Publications /by Publication Officer

Robin Douglass presents the first comprehensive study of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s engagement with Thomas Hobbes. He reconstructs the intellectual context of this engagement to reveal the deeply polemical character of Rousseau’s critique of Hobbes.