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Hobbes and the Making of Modern Political Thought (Hardcover, New)
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Hobbes and the Making of Modern Political Thought (Hardcover, New)
Series: Continuum Studies in British Philosophy
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"Hobbes and the Making of Modern Political Thought" considers what
it is that makes the study of Hobbes so compelling. Gordon Hull
reads Hobbes as the first 'modern' political philosopher. In Hobbes
we find the combination of an anomalous and anachronistic view of
geometry and a radical, almost post-modern understanding of
language. After situation Hobbes against the late scholastic and
Machiavellian traditions against which he wrote, the book studies
Hobbes's neglected writings on mathematics and language. That
analysis then motivates a rereading of his famous pronouncements
about the state of nature and the absolutist state that is supposed
to be its remedy.
The book concludes by showing the relevance of Hobbes to
contemporary debates around the radically democratic potential of
the 'multitude'. Hobbesian thought is the opposition point in these
debates; what emerges here is that Hobbes is very much still with
us. As a theorist who is interested in managing and channelling the
productive energies of the population, Hobbes emerges as the first
theorist of what we now call biopolitics.
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