Leviathan
or The Matter, Form, and Power of a Commonwealth, Ecclesiastical and Civil
Author:
Thomas Hobbes
Narrator:
James Adams
The leviathan is the vast unity of the State. But how are unity, peace, and security to be attained? Hobbes’ answer is sovereignty, but the resurgence of interest today in Leviathan is due less to its answers than its methods: Hobbes sees politics as a science capable of the same axiomatic approach as geometry. Written during the turmoil of the English Civil War, Leviathan was, in Hobbes’ lifetime, publicly burnt and even condemned in Parliament as one of the causes of the Great Fire of London in 1666. Its current appeal lies not just in its elevation of politics to a science, but in its overriding concern for peace, its systematic analysis of power, and its convincing apologia for the then-emergent market society in which we still live.
Product Details ⌃
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ISBN:
9781441794901
SKU#:
15229
Publisher:
Blackstone Audio
Genre:
Political
Duration:
23:17:41
Release Date:
Oct. 1, 2011
Language:
English
