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The Leviathan Paperback - 1991
by Thomas Hobbes
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Details
- Title The Leviathan
- Author Thomas Hobbes
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 593
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
- Date 1991
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0521396417I3N00
- ISBN 9780521396417 / 0521396417
- Weight 1.55 lbs (0.70 kg)
- Dimensions 8.49 x 5.45 x 1.3 in (21.56 x 13.84 x 3.30 cm)
- Reading level 1470
- Library of Congress subjects State, The, Political science - Early works to 1800
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 90001708
- Dewey Decimal Code 320.1
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.