History and Modernity in the Thought of Thomas Hobbes / / Robert Kraynak.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Kraynak, Robert,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©1990
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; 1. The History of Barbarism and Civilization --; 2. The Behemoth: Doctrinal Politics and the English Civil War --; 3. The Methodical Analysis of Opinion --; 4. The Science of Enlightenment --; 5. The Enlightened Mind and the Science of Nature --; 6. The Enlightened Mind and the Science of Politics --; 7. Absolute Sovereignty and the End of Doctrinal Warfare --; 8. The Dogmatism of the Enlightenment and the New Doctrinal Politics --; Selected Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501745997; 9783110536171
• DOI: 10.7591/9781501745997
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Robert Kraynak.

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 Behemoth, 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.