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The Allegiance of Thomas Hobbes (Paperback)
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The Allegiance of Thomas Hobbes (Paperback)
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The Allegiance of Thomas Hobbes offers a revisionist interpretation
of Thomas Hobbes's evolving response to the English Revolution. It
rejects the prevailing understanding of Hobbes as a consistent, if
idiosyncratic, royalist, and vindicates the contemporaneous view
that the publication of Leviathan marked Hobbes's accommodation
with England's revolutionary regime. In sustaining these
conclusions, Professor Collins foregrounds the religious features
of Hobbes's writings, and maintains a contextual focus on the
broader religious dynamics of the English Revolution itself. Hobbes
and the Revolution are both placed within the tumultuous historical
process that saw the emerging English state coercively secure
jurisdictional control over national religion and the corporate
church. Seen in the light of this history, Thomas Hobbes emerges as
a theorist who moved with, rather than against, the revolutionary
currents of his age. The strongest claim of the book is that Hobbes
was motivated by his deep detestation of clerical power to break
with the Stuart cause and to justify the religious policies of
England's post-regicidal masters, including Oliver Cromwell.
Methodologically, Professor Collins supplements intellectual or
linguistic contextual analysis with original research into Hobbes's
biography, the prosopography of his associates, the reception of
Hobbes's published works, and the nature of the English Revolution
as a religious conflict. This multi-dimensional contextual approach
produces, among other fruits: a new understanding of the political
implications of Leviathan; an original interpretation of Hobbes's
civil war history, Behemoth; a clearer picture of Hobbes's career
during theneglected period of the 1650s; and a revisionist
interpretation of Hobbes's reaction to the emergence of English
republicanism. By presenting Thomas Hobbes as a political actor
within a precisely defined political context, Professor Collins has
recovered the significance of Hobbes's writings as artefacts of the
English Revolution.
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