Subverting the Leviathan : reading Thomas Hobbes as a radical democrat /
Author / Creator: | Martel, James R. |
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Imprint: | New York : Columbia University Press, ©2007. |
Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 309 pages) |
Language: | English |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11211252 |
Summary: | In Leviathan , Thomas Hobbes's landmark work on political philosophy, James Martel argues that although Hobbes pays lip service to the superior interpretive authority of the sovereign, he consistently subverts this authority throughout the book by returning it to the reader. |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 309 pages) |
Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-291) and index. |
ISBN: | 9780231511483 0231511485 9780231139847 0231139845 |