Subverting the Leviathan
Subtitle: Reading Thomas Hobbes as a Radical Democrat
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: September 14, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780231139847
Subjects: Topics in philosophy; Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679; Political Philosophy; Religion - Commentaries / Reference; English; General; History & Theory - General; Philosophy; Political; Religion / Philosophy; 1588-1679; Hobbes, Thomas,; Leviathan; Political science
Description: "In Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes's landmark work on political philosophy, James R. Martel argues that although Hobbes pays lip service to the superior interpretive authority of the sovereign, he consistently subverts this authority throughout the book by returning it to the reader."--Jacket.