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Richard Tuck is Professor of Government Department. Professor Tuck is a premier scholar of the history of political thought. His works include Natural Rights Theories (1979), Hobbes (1989), and Philosophy and Government, 1572-1651 (1993). They address a variety of topics including political authority, human rights, natural law, and toleration, and focus on a number of thinkers including Hobbes, Grotius, Selden, and Descartes. His current work deals with political thought and international law, and traces the history of thought about international politics from Grotius, Hobbes, Pufendorf, Locke, and Vattel, to Kant. He is also engaged in a work on the origins of twentieth century economic thought; in it he argues that the 'free rider' proble ...more

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Hobbes: A Very Short Introd...

3.67 avg rating — 329 ratings — published 1989 — 20 editions
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TUCK:RIGHTS WAR & PEACE:POL...

3.98 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 1999 — 10 editions
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Natural Rights Theories: Th...

4.03 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 1979 — 7 editions
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The Sleeping Sovereign: The...

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Philosophy and Government 1...

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The Left Case for Brexit: R...

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Free Riding

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Active and Passive Citizens...

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Hobbes: Leviathan

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Hobbes: Leviathan: Revised ...

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“The culture of modern humanism into which he had thus incorporated himself was to remain important to Hobbes for the rest of his life, though, as we shall see, he distanced himself from many of its specific elements, and in particular its openness to classical republicanism.”
Richard Tuck, Hobbes: A Very Short Introduction



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