Description
| Product ID: | 9780141395098 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Leviathan |
| Authors: | Author: Thomas Hobbes, Christopher Brooke |
| Page Count: | 688 |
| Subjects: | Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900, Social and political philosophy, Political science and theory, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 'The life of man, solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short' Written during the chaos of the English Civil War, Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan asks how, in a world of violence and horror, can we stop ourselves from descending into anarchy? Hobbes' case for a 'common-wealth' under a powerful sovereign - or 'Leviathan' - to enforce security and the rule of law, shocked his contemporaries, and his book was publicly burnt for sedition the moment it was published. But his penetrating work of political philosophy opened up questions about the nature of statecraft and society that influenced governments across the world. Edited with an Introduction by Christopher Brooke ''The life of man, solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short'' |
| Imprint Name: | Penguin Classics |
| Publisher Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2017-07-27 |
