Hobbes

Kye Barker

Chapter 32 in Research Handbook on the History of Political Thought, 2024, pp 359-368 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter tracks in broad strokes the study of Thomas Hobbes in the history of political thought and reflects on some notable recent developments, especially in the study of the religious motivations of his work. Particular attention is given to the role of Hobbes’s work in the disciplinary formation of the history of political thought and political theory, as well as key debates in the interpretation of Hobbes. On the basis of this broad survey of Hobbes studies, the chapter argues that Hobbes should be treated less as the thinker responsible for an epochal transformation in the history of political thought, which is always motivated by some contemporary issue, but rather as a deeply strange thinker from an even stranger time.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Law - Academic; Politics and Public Policy Sociology and Social Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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