Leviathan
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Wear and tear. Chipped along spine and folds. Page Condition: Yellowed, tanning. Markings: none. Binding condition: Binding intact.
Few works in the history of Western thought have redefined the foundations of political power as decisively as Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan. Written in the shadow of the English Civil War, this monumental treatise argues that without a supreme sovereign authority, human life is condemned to be solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short — a vision of the natural state that remains as provocative today as when it was first published in 1651. Hobbes constructs a rigorous philosophical argument for the social contract, asserting that rational individuals willingly surrender certain freedoms to a powerful centralised government in exchange for security and civil order. This Everyman's Library edition, introduced by A. D. Lindsay, presents Hobbes's landmark work to a broader readership without diminishing the intellectual weight of its original prose. Hobbes writes with the precision of a mathematician and the urgency of a polemicist, weaving together threads of metaphysics, theology, and jurisprudence into a single, towering argument. Leviathan not only shaped the course of Enlightenment political philosophy but continues to challenge readers to interrogate the very nature of authority, liberty, and the state — questions that refuse to grow old.
Author: Thomas Hobbes
Format: Hardback
Genre: Philosophy
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Wear and tear. Chipped along spine and folds. Page Condition: Yellowed, tanning. Markings: none. Binding condition: Binding intact.
Few works in the history of Western thought have redefined the foundations of political power as decisively as Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan. Written in the shadow of the English Civil War, this monumental treatise argues that without a supreme sovereign authority, human life is condemned to be solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short — a vision of the natural state that remains as provocative today as when it was first published in 1651. Hobbes constructs a rigorous philosophical argument for the social contract, asserting that rational individuals willingly surrender certain freedoms to a powerful centralised government in exchange for security and civil order. This Everyman's Library edition, introduced by A. D. Lindsay, presents Hobbes's landmark work to a broader readership without diminishing the intellectual weight of its original prose. Hobbes writes with the precision of a mathematician and the urgency of a polemicist, weaving together threads of metaphysics, theology, and jurisprudence into a single, towering argument. Leviathan not only shaped the course of Enlightenment political philosophy but continues to challenge readers to interrogate the very nature of authority, liberty, and the state — questions that refuse to grow old.