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Leviathan - Body politic as visual strategy in the work of Thomas Hobbes (Hardcover)
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Leviathan - Body politic as visual strategy in the work of Thomas Hobbes (Hardcover)
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Horst Bredekamp's subject is the astute deployment and perennial
resonance of the startling image of the body politic that dominates
the frontispiece to Leviathan: a treatise on the psychology of the
individual and the dynamic of the multitude, published in 1651 by
the English philosopher Thomas Hobbes. Affirming the centrality of
such a figural device for this pioneering theorist of the state,
Bredekamp goes on to address the art-historical dimension of the
mesmerising etched title-page. In his central chapters he explores
the extraordinary range of sources - from socio-cultural tradition
to scientific advances - on which the author and his
artist-collaborator may have drawn. In conclusion, he reveals
Hobbes to be no less passionate than shrewd in his belief that the
constraints and amenities of a tolerable life in common attest to
the potency of the visual. As appendices, two essays and catalogues
explore the portraits made of Hobbes as well as illustrations that
appeared in his other works, thus systematically completing the
exploration of the images connected with this exceptional
philosopher.
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