Thomas Hobbes in his time
By: edited by Ralph Ross, Herbert W. Schneider, Theodore Waldman. --
Contributors: Schneider, Herbert Wallace, 1892-; Waldman, Theodore
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 1975
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 150
Subjects: Hobbes, Thomas, -- 1588-1679
Description: Thomas Hobbes, the seventeenth-century English philosopher, is the subject of lively discussion among philosophers, historians, and political theorists today. Both as a participant in a revolutionary commonwealth and as a student of the science of human nature, Hobbes has achieved a new relevance to contemporary society. As the editors of this volume point out, moralists are apt to place him in the twentieth century, and historians are apt to portray him as an antique. The aim of these essays is to get an accurate account of how radical Hobbes was in his own revolutionary century.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 136-139. *** Includes index.

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