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Leviathan (Penguin Classics)

Leviathan (Penguin Classics) Paperback - 1982

by Hobbes, Thomas

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Penguin Classics, 1982. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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  • Title Leviathan (Penguin Classics)
  • Author Hobbes, Thomas
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 736
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Classics, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 1982
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Bookseller's Inventory # G0140431950I3N00
  • ISBN 9780140431957 / 0140431950
  • Weight 1.13 lbs (0.51 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.78 x 5.28 x 1.3 in (19.76 x 13.41 x 3.30 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Reading level 1270
  • Library of Congress subjects Political science, State, The
  • Dewey Decimal Code 320.1

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Summary

Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan, from 1651, is one of the first and most influential arguments towards social contract. Written in the midst of the English Civil War, it concerns the structure of government and society and argues for strong central governance and the rule of an absolute sovereign as the way to avoid civil war and chaos.

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About the author

Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) was born in Malmesbury. Entering Magdalen Hall, Oxford, in 1603, he took his degree in 1608 and became tutor to the eldest son of Lord Cavendish of Hardwick, afterwards the Earl of Devonshire; his connection with this family was life-long. His first interest was in the classics, and his first published work a translation of Thucydides, in 1628. An interest in science and philosophy soon developed, heightened by extended travels in Europe in 1629-31 and 1634-37. This led to his great project of a political science. His first verson of this, The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic, was privately circulated in 1640, when Parliament was hotly disputing the king's powers, and Hobbes fled to Paris, where he stayed for eleven years.

A second version, De Cive, was published in 1642, and the third, Leviathan--the crowning achievement of his political science--in 1651. It was so influential that it came under widespread attack and was in danger of condemnation by the House of Commons. Hobbes perforce lived quietly and published little more on political matters. At the age of eighty-four he composed an autobiography in Latin verse, and within the next three years translated the whole of Homer's Odyssey and Iliad.