Hobbes and Modern Political Thought
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781474401203
Subjects: Political science, philosophy
Table of contents: title: Reveals the Hobbesian origins of contemporary political concerns, especially the relationships between state, individual and law; title: Yves Charles Zarka shows you how Hobbes established the framework for modern political thought. Discover the origin of liberalism in the Hobbesian theory of negative liberty; that Hobbesian interest and contract are essential to contemporary discussions of the comportment of economic actors; and how state sovereignty returns anew in the form of the servility of the state.; title: At the same time, Zarka controversially argues against received readings claiming that Hobbes is a thinker of a state monopoly on legitimate violence.; title: Show less; title: Contents; title: Translator’s Introduction; title: Foreword; title: 1. Journey: To the Foundations of Modern Politics; title: Part I. Individual and State; title: 2. Gracián’s Hero and Hobbes’s Antihero; title: 3. The Hobbesian Idea of Political Philosophy; title: Part II. Language and Power; title: 4. Theory of Language; title: 5. The Semiology of Power; title: Part III. Fundamental Concepts of Politics; title: 6. On War; title: 7. On Law; title: 8. On Property; title: 9. On the State; title: 10. On the Right to Punish; title: Part IV. Hobbes According to Two Contemporaries; title: 11. Hobbes and Filmer: Regnum Patrimoniale and Regnum Institutivum; title: 12. Hobbes and Pascal: Two Models of the Theory of Power; title: Conclusion: Hobbes’s Contribution; title: Bibliography