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Hobbes, Sovereignty, and Early American Literature (Hardcover)
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Hobbes, Sovereignty, and Early American Literature (Hardcover)
Series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
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Hobbes, Sovereignty, and Early American Literature pursues the
question of democratic sovereignty as it was anticipated, theorized
and resisted in the American colonies and in the early United
States. It proposes that orthodox American liberal accounts of
political community need to be supplemented and challenged by the
deeply controversial theory of sovereignty that was articulated in
Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan (1651). This book offers a radical
re-evaluation of Hobbes's political theory and demonstrates how a
renewed attention to key Hobbesian ideas might inform inventive
re-readings of major American literary, religious and political
texts. Ranging from seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Puritan
attempts to theorize God's sovereignty to revolutionary and
founding-era debates over popular sovereignty, this book argues
that democratic aspiration still has much to learn from Hobbes's
Leviathan and from the powerful liberal resistance it has
repeatedly provoked.
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