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'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

About the Author

Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) was an English philosopher and political theorist and one of the first modern Western thinkers to provide a secular justification for the political state. Regarded as an important early influence on the philosophy of utilitarianism, Hobbes also contributed to modern psychology and laid the foundations of modern sociology.

Christopher Brooke (External Editor) is a lecturer at Cambridge University in the Department of Politics and International Studies and author of Philosophic Pride: Stoicism and Political Thought from Lipsius to Rousseau (2012).
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  • ISBN: 9780141395098
  • Author: Thomas Hobbes
  • Publisher: Penguin Classics
  • Pages: 688
  • Format: Paperback
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'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

About the Author

Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) was an English philosopher and political theorist and one of the first modern Western thinkers to provide a secular justification for the political state. Regarded as an important early influence on the philosophy of utilitarianism, Hobbes also contributed to modern psychology and laid the foundations of modern sociology.

Christopher Brooke (External Editor) is a lecturer at Cambridge University in the Department of Politics and International Studies and author of Philosophic Pride: Stoicism and Political Thought from Lipsius to Rousseau (2012).

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