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ABOUT THIS BOOK

PUBLISHER: Edinburgh University Press

FORMAT: Hardback

ISBN: 9781474401210

RRP: £75.00

PAGES: 256

PUBLICATION DATE:
July 31, 2016

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Hobbes and Modern Political Thought

Translated By Zarka

Professor of Political Philosophy Yves Charles Zarka

Assistant Professor in the History of Political Thought James Griffith

Yves Charles Zarka shows you how Hobbes established the framework for modern political thought. Discover the origin of liberalism in the Hobbesian theory of negative liberty; that Hobbesian interest and contract are essential to contemporary discussions of the comportment of economic actors; and how state sovereignty returns anew in the form of the servility of the state. At the same time, Zarka controversially argues against received readings claiming that Hobbes is a thinker of a state monopoly on legitimate violence.

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Translated By Zarka

Yves Charles Zarka is Professor of Political Philosophy at the Universite Paris Descartes (Sorbonne). He is the general editor of Oeuvres de Hobbes (Vrin), and has also published La decision metaphysique de Hobbes (Vrin). He edits the journal Cites (PUF) and, among his works on contemporary political philosophy, has recently published Refaire l’Europe (PUF), Refonder le cosmopolitanisme (PUF), and L’inappropriabilite de la Terre (Armand Colin). James Griffith is Assistant Professor in the History of Political Thought at the Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts.”