New article on the case of the Virginia Company and Thomas Hobbes
The paper focuses upon a petition that William Cavendish presented to the Virginia Company assembly defending the democratic constitution of the Company.
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New Chapter on Spinoza and Hobbes
A chapter on Hobbes and Spinoza by Michael LeBuffe in the new ‘Companion to Spinoza’ (edited by Yitzhak Y. Melamed) addresses Hobbes’s and Spinoza’s views on the question of whether and how human beings can change. It presents consequences of the philosophers’ accounts of human nature for their ethics and politics.
New piece on Hobbes and prosopopoeia
Jerónimo Rilla argues that Hobbes’s notion of the State draws influence from what classic rhetoricians called prosopopoeia.
New article: A Hobbesian approach to collective action
Ioannis D. Evrigenis argues that Hobbes’s account of self-interest and risk assessment formed the basis of a powerful argument for the benefits of negative appeals.
New book contrasting Hobbes with Rousseau, Kant, Hegel and Marx
By means of careful analysis of relevant writings by Hobbes, Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, and Marx, David James argues that the concept of practical necessity is key to understanding the emergence of the conditions of a free society in terms of a historical process that is initially governed by practical necessity.
New Article asking: How natural is Hobbes’s Natural Person?
In this article Jerónimo Rilla demonstrates that the Hobbesian person’s genuinely natural feature is the human body, understood not as a physio-biological object, but as the ultimate responsibility locus of the person’s performance.
New article on Hobbes and the Modern Business Corporation
R.J.G. Claassen draws upon Hobbes to show how concession theory can accommodate private initiative and economic analysis, and thus be a relevant position in the debate about the modern business corporation.
Latest issue of Hobbes Studies
Contains pieces on “Political, Sociological and Economistic Ways of Avoiding a State of Nature”, “Hobbes’s Strategy of Convergence”, and the “Use and Abuse of Imagination in Leviathan”
Time to rethink Hobbes on the Passions
In this paper, Christopher Bobier argues for a non‐cognitive reading of Hobbesian Passions according to which a passion is an appetite or aversion caused by, but distinct from, an imagination of a future good or harm.
New book on Hobbes and Spinoza on Power and Popular Politics
Sandra Leonie Field argues that for both Hobbes and Spinoza, conscious institutional design is required in order for true popular power (potentia) to be achieved. Between Hobbes’ commitment to repressing private power and Spinoza’s exploration of civic strengthening, Field provides a new lens for thinking about the risks and promise of democracy.
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