Aspects of Hobbes

by Noel Malcolm

These essays are the fruit of many years' research by one of the world's leading Hobbes scholars. Noel Malcolm offers not only succinct introductions to Hobbes's life and thought, but also path-breaking studies of many different aspects of his political philosophy, his scientific and religious
theories, his relations with his contemporaries, the sources of his ideas, the printing history of his works, and his influence on European thought.

Genres: History, Nonfiction, Philosophy

660 pages, Hardcover

First published January 16, 2002

Reviews

[Phillip · Rating 5 out of 5]

These essays are the fruit of many years' research by one of the world's leading Hobbes scholars. Noel Malcolm offers not only succinct introductions to Hobbes's life and thought, but also path-breaking studies of many different aspects of his political philosophy, his scientific and religious theories, his relations with his contemporaries, the sources of his ideas. Highly Recommended!

[N Perrin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Superb historical scholarship on a wide-ranging variety of topics concerning who is perhaps the greatest philosophical mind of the seventeenth century. The essays in this volume include analyses of:

-Hobbes' confrontation with the academic-scientific elite and his own remarkable accomplishment in optics, mathematics, and the sciences
-Hobbes' relationship with print culture and the significance of the notorious title-page of Leviathan
-Hobbes' connection with the Virginia Company and his formulation of early colonial and internationalist discourses
-Hobbes' groundbreaking biblical criticism as the first Englishman to critically evaluate Scripture using the tools of textual criticism

Among many other fascinating topics any student of the Enlightenment should take care to examine as we (hopefully) move past the woefully unhelpful one-dimensional caricature of Hobbes taught today.

[Astrid · Rating 3 out of 5]

encore une fois faisons comme si lire 30 pages pour une dissert suffisait