Leviathan
Thomas Hobbes author Christopher Brooke editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Published:27th Jul '17
Should be back in stock very soon
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