The Platonian Leviathan / / Leon Harold Craig.
Thomas Hobbes's influential political treatise, Leviathan, was first published in 1651. Many scholars have since credited him with a mechanistic outlook towards human nature that established the basis of modern Western political philosophy from the perspective of social contract theory. In The...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017] ©2009 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (704 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Prelude
- Melvillian Overture: Moby-Dick and Philosophy
- Part One: The Problematical Leviathan: Κακοφονία
- A Conradian Intermezzo: Variations on the State of Nature
- Part Two: The Platonic Leviathan: Άρμονία
- A Melvillian Coda: Moby-Dick as Fourfold Allegory
- Postlude
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index of Names