Thomas Hobbes's influential political treatise, Leviathan, was
first published in 1651. Many scholars have since credited him with
a mechanistic outlook towards human nature that established the
basis of modern Western political philosophy from the perspective
of social contract theory. In The Platonian Leviathan, Leon Harold
Craig weaves together philosophy, political science, and literature
to offer a radical re-interpretation of Hobbes's most famous work.
Though Craig begins and concludes his analysis with discussions of
Herman Melville's Moby-Dick and includes an essay on Joseph
Conrad's Heart of Darkness, the bulk of his two-part commentary
centres on Leviathan. Part One shows the overt principles of
Hobbes's political prescription to be untenable, and strongly
suggests that Hobbes himself did not subscribe to these rules,
using them only as tools to further his philosophical goals. In
Part Two, Craig displays the underlying Platonism of Hobbes's
thinking. Sure to be controversial, The Platonian Leviathan may
nonetheless re-orient the future direction of Hobbes scholarship.
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