Hobbes and history
By: edited by G.A.J. Rogers and Tom Sorell.
Contributors: Rogers, G. A. J. 1938-; Sorell, Tom.
Series: Routledge studies in seventeenth-century philosophy
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2000
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
Subjects: Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679.; Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679.; History -- Philosophy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: PART I; title: Hobbes and history; title: 1 Hobbes's concept of history; title: KARL SCHUHMANN; title: 2 When Hobbes needed history; title: DEBORAH BAUMGOLD; title: 3 Hobbes and historiography: Why the future, he says, does not exist; title: PATRICIA SPRINGBORG; title: 4 Hobbes, history and wisdom; title: G. A. J. ROGERS; title: 5 Hobbes's uses of the history of philosophy; title: TOM SORELL; title: PART II; title: Hobbesian histories; title: 6 Hobbes and Tacitus; title: RICHARD TUCK; title: 7 The peace of silence: Thucydides and the English Civil War; title: JONATHAN SCOTT; title: 8 Hobbes's Behemoth; title: LUC BOROT; title: 9 Hobbes and sacred history; title: FRANCK LESSAY; title: 10 Hobbes, Selden, Erastianism, and the history of the Jews; title: JOHANN P. SOMMERVILLE.