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By Thomas Hobbes - Leviathan (Penguin Classics) by Thomas Hobbes; Marshall Missner; Crawford Brough Macpherson is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.
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'The life of man, solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short' Written during the chaos of the English Civil War, Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan asks how, in a world of violence and horror, can we stop ourselves from descending into anarchy? Hobbes' case for a 'common-wealth' under a powerful sovereign - or 'Leviathan' - to enforce security and the rule of law, shocked his contemporaries, and his book was publicly burnt for sedition the moment it was published. But his penetrating work of political philosophy - now fully revised and with a new introduction for this edition - opened up questions about the nature of statecraft and society that influenced governments across the world.
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- Author
- Thomas Hobbes; Marshall Missner; Crawford Brough Macpherson
- Publisher
- London, England ; New York, N.Y., USA: Penguin Books
- Published
- 1986
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780140431957
- Category
- philosophy
- Subjects
- Political Science, Fiction, Philosophy
- Rating
- 3.67 / 5 (27,013 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
- 利维坦(全三册)(英汉对照全译本) (西方学术经典译丛) (2007)
- Leviathan (Oxford World's Classics) (1996)
- Leviathan: With selected variants from the Latin edition of 1668 (Hackett Classics) (1994)
- Leviathan: or, The matter, forme and power of a commonwealth, ecclesiasticall and civil (1946)
- Hobbes: Leviathan: Revised student edition (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) (1996)
- Leviathan/ y Thomas Hobbes (2011)
- Leviathan With Selected Variants from the Latin Edition Of 1668 : With Selected Variants from the Latin Edition Of 1668 (1994)
- Leviathan/ y Thomas Hobbes (2013)
- Leviathan (Oxford World's Classics) (2024)
- Leviathan (Oxford World's Classics) (1998)
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