Mortal gods
Subtitle: science, politics, and the humanist ambitions of Thomas Hobbes
By: Ted H. Miller
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: University Park, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9780271048918
Description: "Argues against the accepted idea that Thomas Hobbes turned away from humanism to pursue the scientific study of politics. Reconceptualizes Hobbes's thought within early modern humanist pedagogy and the court culture of the Stuart regimes"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-331) and index.
Table of contents: title: The humanist face of Hobbes's mathematics, part 1; title: Constraints that enable the imitation of God; title: King of the children of pride : the imitation of God in context; title: Architectonic ambitions : mathematics and the demotion of physics; title: Eloquence and the audience thesis; title: All other doctrines exploded : Hobbes, history, and the struggle over teaching; title: The humanist face of Hobbes's mathematics, part 2 : Leviathan and the making of a masque-text; title: Appendix. Who is a geometer?.