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What is History and Modernity in the Thought of Thomas Hobbes about?
<P>Robert Kraynak offers a radical reinterpretation of the political thought of Thomas Hobbes and a new assessment of Hobbes's contribution to the origins and problems of modernity. The author argues that it is necessary to examine a neglected facet of Hobbes's thought—his writings on history, especially <I>Behemoth</I>, his lengthy study of the English Civil War. Through a close reading of these works, Kraynak shows how Hobbes came to consider the possibility of a new kind of political science, one that is supremely confident of the power of critical reason to overcome the authorities of the past to build a new form of civilization yet uncertain about reason's foundations.</P>
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Kraynak, Robert
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780801424274
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Philosophy, Humanities