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    Aspects of Hobbes by Malcolm, Noel;

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    • Publisher OUP Oxford
    • Date of Publication 2 September 2004

    • ISBN 9780199275403
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages660 pages
    • Size 233x157x35 mm
    • Weight 989 g
    • Language English
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    Short description:

    Aspects of Hobbes is a major event in the study of Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679), one of the giants of early modern thought. These essays are the fruit of many years' research by one of the world's leading Hobbes scholars. Noel Malcolm offers not only succinct introductions to Hobbes's life and thought, but also path-breaking studies of many different aspects of his political philosophy, his scientific and religious theories, his relations with his contemporaries, the sources of his ideas, the printing history of his works, and his influence on European thought.

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    Long description:

    Noel Malcolm, one of the world's leading experts on Thomas Hobbes, presents a set of extended essays on a wide variety of aspects of the life and work of this giant of early modern thought. Malcolm offers a succinct introduction to Hobbes's life and thought, as a foundation for his discussion of such topics as his political philosophy, his theory of international relations, the development of his mechanistic world-view, and his subversive Biblical criticism. Several of the essays pay special attention to the European dimensions of Hobbes's life, his sources and his influence; the longest surveys the entire European reception of his work from the 1640s to the 1750s. All the essays are based on a deep knowledge of primary sources, and many present striking new discoveries about Hobbes's life, his manuscripts, and the printing history of his works. Aspects of Hobbes will be essential reading not only for Hobbes specialists, but also for all those interested in seventeenth-century intellectual history more generally, both British and European.

    Aspects of Hobbes is a work of profound scholarship, displaying a breadth and depth of erudition that is beyond praise. But it is much more than that: Malcolm never loses the reader in the fascinating details of Hobbes's intellectual background and influence that he has uncovered. By linking the minutiae of his life and times with the core claims of his works he has given us a remarkable study in early modern European intellectual history.

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    Table of Contents:

    Preface
    A Summary Biography of Hobbes
    Hobbes and Spinoza
    Hobbes, Sandys, and the Virginia Company
    Robert Payne, the Hobbes Manuscripts, and the 'Short Tract'
    Hobbes's Science of Politics and his Theory of Science
    Hobbes and Roberval
    The Titlepage of Leviathan, Seen in a Curious Perspective
    Charles Cotton, Translator of Hobbes's De cive
    Pierre de Cardonnel (1614-1667): Merchant, Printer, Poet, and Reader of Hobbes
    Hobbes and the Royal Society
    The Printing of the Bear: New Light on the Second Edition of Hobbes' Leviathan
    Hobbes, Ezra and the Bible: The History of a Subversive Idea
    Hobbes's Theory of International Relations
    Hobbes and the European Republic of Letters
    List of Manuscripts
    Bibliography
    Index

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