New anthology: Early Modern Philosophy
This anthology contains the works of forty-three philosophers and balances classic philosophical texts with texts by philosophers historically excluded from the canon.
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New article on liberty and representation in Hobbes
This new article by Andrea Bardin analyses Hobbes’s definitions of liberty in “De cive” and the concept of representation in “Leviathan”. These concepts reveal tensions in Hobbes’s political anthropology that only a study of the development of his philosophical materialism can fully elucidate.
New article: Hobbes on treason and fundamental law
This article by Laurens van Apeldoorn considers Hobbes’ contribution to the development of constitutionalist thought by contextualizing his treatment of the concepts of treason and fundamental law in De cive (1642, 2nd ed. 1647) and Leviathan (1651).
New article on automata in Hobbes
A new article by Ziyaad Bhorat, arguing that there are three heads of Hobbesian automata emerging from (i) the texts he translated, (ii) the mechanical artifices that surrounded him, and (iii) the physiology he greatly appreciated.
Latest issue of Hobbes Studies
A new issue of Hobbes Studies is available – including articles by David Lay Williams and Laurens van Apeldoorn in a Research Symposium on Political Economy, introduced by Katherine M. Robiadek.
New article on Hobbes and the Normativity of Democracy
In this article Christopher Holman suggests that Hobbes’s opposition to democratic life constitutes the central frame through which we must understand some of the most important theoretical mutations that occur throughout the various stages of his civil science.
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.
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.
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