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Taming the Leviathan - The Reception of the Political and Religious Ideas of Thomas Hobbes in England 1640-1700 (Hardcover)
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Taming the Leviathan - The Reception of the Political and Religious Ideas of Thomas Hobbes in England 1640-1700 (Hardcover)
Series: Ideas in Context
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Thomas Hobbes is widely acknowledged as the most important
political philosopher to have written in English. Originally
published in 2007, Taming the Leviathan is a wide-ranging study of
the English reception of Hobbes's ideas. In the first book-length
treatment of the topic for over forty years, Jon Parkin follows the
fate of Hobbes's texts (particularly Leviathan) and the development
of his controversial reputation during the seventeenth century,
revealing the stakes in the critical discussion of the philosopher
and his ideas. Revising the traditional view that Hobbes was simply
rejected by his contemporaries, Parkin demonstrates that Hobbes's
work was too useful for them to ignore, but too radical to leave
unchallenged. His texts therefore had to be controlled, their
lessons absorbed and their author discredited. In other words the
Leviathan had to be tamed. Taming the Leviathan significantly
revised our understanding of the role of Hobbes and Hobbism in
seventeenth-century England.
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