Binding: Paperback
Description: 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
Title: Leviathan
Author(s): Hobbes Thomas, Christopher Brooke
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Barcode: 9780141395098
Pages: 688 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 10/10/2017
Category: Political Science & Theory