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Leviathan

Thomas Hobbes author Christopher Brooke editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd

Published:27th Jul '17

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This new Penguin Classics edition has a fully revised text and a major new introduction by Christopher Brooke.

'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

ISBN: 9780141395098

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 29mm

Weight: 468g

688 pages