The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes

by Tom Sorell (Editor)

It was as a political thinker that Thomas Hobbes first came to prominence, and it is as a political theorist that he is most studied today. Yet the range of his writings extends well beyond morals and politics. Hobbes had distinctive views in metaphysics and epistemology, and wrote about such subjects as history, law, and religion. He also produced full-scale treatises in physics, optics, and geometry. All of these areas are covered in this Companion, most in considerable detail. The volume also reflects the multidisciplinary nature of current Hobbes scholarship by drawing together perspectives that are now being developed in parallel by philosophers, historians of science and mathematics, intellectual historians, political scientists, and literary theorists.

Genres: Philosophy, Nonfiction, Politics, History, Biography

421 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 17, 1992

Reviews

[Brandy Cross · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a series of essays which vary considerably in quality and understanding of the subject, and which are not entirely cohesive. Many of them are very good. One of them borders on the inane. I think I would have liked this better had the authors written their pieces to be included in a collection rather than their pieces being collected post-publication and added with some editing and translation from a single editor. Overall, this is not much worth a read unless you truly desperately want to know what X person has to say about a specific element of Hobbes' work

[Amy · Rating 2 out of 5]

A good volume, certainly encompasses an analysis of a wide range of Hobbes's work. As a complete novice on Hobbes, I found it a little technical and convoluted but perhaps that is the nature of the topic.