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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.
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.
A new perspective on the interaction of science, religion and
politics in Restoration England, based on discussion of
Cumberland's De legibus naturae. Richard Cumberland is one of the
seventeenth century's most interesting political theorists. His
masterpiece, the De legibus naturae(1672), has rarely been examined
on its own terms, but by tracing the political, religiousand
intellectual circumstances of the composition of this puzzling
work, and showing its importance as a critique of Thomas Hobbes,
author of the Leviathan, Dr Parkin demonstrates how Cumberland
created a new political andethical theory which absorbed and
neutralised many of Hobbes's insights. He also examines the science
of the Royal Society as a basis for Cumberland's natural law theory
and its influence on such thinkers as Samuel Pufendorf and John
Locke. Overall, the book provides an important new perspective on
the interaction of science, religion and politics in Restoration
England. Dr JON PARKIN teaches in the Department of History at
King's College, London.
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