Nations and Identities 
Subtitle: Classic Readings (Keyworks in Cultural Studies)
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Limited
Published: January 1, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780631222088
First sentence: Though he supported the monarchy against a rebellious parliament in the English Civil War, the skeptical and materialist Hobbes (1588-1679) worked a revolution of sorts in political theory by rejecting the widely held Aristotelian assumption behind civil society: that man is by nature a zoon politikon, or political animal.