Features March 2013
Reconsidering Hobbes’s magnum opus with the release of a new edition.
Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan, published in 1651, has long been recognized as (in Michael Oakeshott’s words) “the greatest, perhaps the sole, masterpiece of political philosophy written in the English language.”1 It certainly provoked violent opinions,...
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